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I've seen many visualizations of the citibike data over the years, this is one of the most charismatic for sure!
This is beautifully done!
How is MapBox going for this free tool? Is it costing you money?
I've seen many visualizations of the citibike data over the years, this is one of the most charismatic for sure!
+1 to this comment! I used to work in this space and have similarly seen many projects and professional attempts at visualizing this kind of trip data. This is beautifully done!
It's often interesting to observe the different ways that privacy is approached in the US and Europe. In Europe we often accept pretty grave restrictions of our liberty like the UK's Online Safety Act, which would never fly in the US, and we do so without much public comment. On the other side of things, organisations in the US happily expose datasets like this one, which would give a most EU Data Protection Officers…
* Limitations *
The data only contains the start and end station for each trip, but does not contain the full path. Route geometries are computed for each (start station, end station) pair using the shortest path from OSRM.
This means that the computed routes are directionally correct but inexact. Trips that start and end at the same station are filtered out since the route geometry is ambiguous.
Cool visualization.
Do you find the OSRM shortest path routes probable for bikes? Not living in NYC, I expected pretty different paths. Say the "Hudson River Greenway" or whatever that's called.
Interesting that citibike publishes trip level data. The bike share schemes in Dublin only publish station counts or free bike locations. So you can see the overall pattern of bike motion, but there’s no way to see how many north side trips go to the docks vs Heuston station vs the city center.
It's often interesting to observe the different ways that privacy is approached in the US and Europe. In Europe we often accept pretty grave restrictions of our liberty like the UK's Online Safety Act, which would never fly in the US, and we do so without much public comment. On the other side of things, organisations in the US happily expose datasets like this one, which would give a most EU Data Protection Officers…