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+# LGA Airline Passengers
+
+This dataset gives the number of passengers arriving and departing at LGA.
+
+The data is obtained from New York State's official Kaggle page for this
+dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/new-york-state/nys-air-passenger-traffic,-port-authority-of-ny-nj#air-passenger-traffic-per-month-port-authority-of-ny-nj-beginning-1977.csv
+
+This page shows that the data is under a "CC0: Public Domain" license, so we
+redistribute it here as part of our repository.
+
+To create the ``lga_passengers.json`` file from the raw csv file, simply run:
+
+```
+$ python convert.py ./air-passenger-traffic-per-month-port-authority-of-ny-nj-beginning-1977.csv ./lga_passengers.json
+```
+
+![Plot of lga_passengers dataset](./lga_passengers.png)