Mapping Novel York Taxi Journeys

The NYC Cab Rides map is an interactive map visualizing Yellow Cab trip information inward New York City from July 2015 - June 2016. The map allows y'all to encounter where the close New York cab rides begin, the pick-up locations where cab drivers tin await the largest tips, where inward the urban centre passengers pay inward cash & where they pay past times credit, the set out of passengers as well as the length of journeys.

The map uses hexagonal binning to render a spatial histogram of New York taxi ride data. The hexagons stand upward for the set out of rides inward each place on the map inward 2 dissimilar ways. It uses both a color ramp as well as the size of the hexagons themselves to betoken the full set out of rides at each place on the map.

If y'all hover over a hexagon on the map y'all tin sentiment the exact set out of rides equally good equally the average length & toll of the rides as well as the per centum of passengers that paid past times cash as well as credit card. If y'all click on a hexagon on the map as well as thus the map changes to visualizes the taxi rides to or from that place from everywhere else inward the city.


The NYC Cab Rides Map was made to partner John Nelson's storey map which likewise explores Yellow Cab trip information inward New York City. In Taxi Cab Terrain Nelson examines how dissimilar New York boroughs purpose as well as pay for taxi cab journeys. He as well as thus looks at the underlying socio-economic information inward those neighborhoods to encounter if they assist explicate the differences inward how inhabitants of dissimilar New York neighborhoods purpose as well as pay for cabs.

In Taxi Cab Terrain Esri has mapped out the locations where the close New York cab rides begin, the pick-up locations where cab drivers tin await the largest tips, where inward the urban centre passengers pay inward cash & where they pay past times credit, the set out of passengers as well as the length of journeys.

Back inward 2014 Chris Whong likewise created an impressive interactive map using New York taxi data. Chris' map provided a neat insight into the daily life of i New York taxi driver. Chris' NYC Taxis: H5N1 Day inward the Life is a MapBox visualization of the journeying of i New York taxi over the bird of 24 hours.

You tin likewise explore New York taxi journeys inward the NYC Taxi Holiday Visualization, which animates taxi journeys from New York's airports over the bird of a calendar month as well as half, as well as Hubcab, a mapped visualization of 170 1000000 taxi trips over i yr inward New York.