Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips, with a Vengeance - Todd W. Schneider
The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission has released a staggeringly detailed historical dataset covering over 1.1 billion individual taxi trips in the city from January 2009 through June 2015. …
Note: this post was originally written in November 2015, and was expanded with updates in September 2016 and March 2018 . There is also a dashboard available here that updates monthly with the latest taxi, Uber, and Lyft aggregate stats. The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission has released a staggeringly detailed historical dataset covering over 1.1 billion individual taxi trips in the city from January 2009 through June 2015. Taken as a whole, the detailed trip-level data is more than just a vast list of taxi pickup and drop off coordinates: it’s a story of New York. How bad is the rush
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