A rideshare data-sharing agreement will push external trip aggregates to the city every night through a partner interface. How should the analytics team classify this feed?
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Short Explanation
Nightly partner dumps are still Big Data sources — they just live outside city hall’s servers. Treat the rideshare feed as an external API contribution, not a paper-ticket museum piece. It adds coverage; it does not replace every city sensor with video frames.
Full Explanation
Partner and third-party APIs are legitimate Big Data sources for civic programs. Nightly trip aggregates expand municipal mobility views when contracts, schemas, and refresh windows are governed. They complement rather than erase city-owned sensors, and they are not the same as raw video archives. Classification as an external API source keeps architecture and privacy reviews aligned with how the data actually arrives.