Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips

Yesterday, I made a post about how to reconstruct the NYC map visualization using the 1.1B Taxi Data using ggplot2: http://minimaxir.com/2015/11/nyc-ggplot2-howto/ Looking at the code for the visualization, the author did an independently similar approach (with the same tools), and one that turned out slightly different, which is what makes things interesting. It's worth nothing that back in August, only the 2014 and 2015 datasets were released by the NYC TLC. I'm not entirely sure why they decided to release…

Brooklynite here. In theory, I want to be behind taxi drivers. They're a local business owners with ties in the community, and I would rather support them than a Silicon Valley startup with a questionable stance on privacy and poor treatment of their workers. In reality though, taxis need to fix a few issues: 1. I don't need to be able to hail a cab anywhere--I can't really hail Ubers, either. But if I call a cab, I'd like to…

7 years ago you'd have to jump into a yellow cab before telling the rider if you were going from Manhattan to Brooklyn or Brooklyn to Brooklyn. If you told them before you got in, they'd speed off. You used to have to walk to arterial roads in hopes of finding a yellow cab (in the outer boroughs). That is if you lived in neighborhoods that the article points out now skews towards Lyft. Well to do, post gentrification areas…