Mapping Uber Inwards Novel York

FiveThirtyEight has published data on over 4.5 1000000 Uber pickups inward New York City from Apr to September 2014. The information besides includes data on x other for-hire vehicle companies.

Bill Morris has used the information to practice an animated map of Uber pickups for the calendar week firstly Apr 1st 2014. One calendar week of Uber Pickups inward xv Seconds uses CartoDB's Torque engine to visualize the patterns of pickups past times fourth dimension too day. The timeline shows the twenty-four hr menstruum currently beingness visualized on the map only non the fourth dimension of day. However you lot tin location a pregnant driblet inward pickups at sure enough times every day. My gauge is that this drop-off inward pickups is during the really early on hours of each morning.


Bill's map shows the temporal patterns inward Uber pick-ups inward New York City. Another map, past times Mapbox's Eric Fischer, shows the geographical distribution of the pickups for the whole 6 months worth of data. Uber NYC Pickups, Apr-Sep 2014 provides a point density persuasion of all Uber pickups across the city.

Both maps are peachy initial visualizations of the information obtained past times FiveThirtyEight. It volition hold upward interesting to run across what other maps are created alongside this data. For example, I'd similar to run across Eric's map alongside closed to New York demographic information layers. It would hold upward interesting to run across if in that location is whatsoever correlation betwixt the issue of pickups too the average income levels inward a neighborhood.

Another interesting visualization would hold upward a comparing of the Uber pickups information alongside the yellowish taxi information for the same 6 months. The NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission has released the data for all completed yellowish taxi too light-green cab trips betwixt Jan 1, 2014 too June 30, 2015, too thus it is possible to brand a map alongside both sets of data.