I watched a few different cabs and they all seemed to generate around $600 in a 24 hour period. Am I the only person who thinks this is astonishingly low?
That's about $50/hr (before medallion or car costs). I wouldn't call it astonishingly low.
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#32Seems like this data could be used to build an app that suggests where a taxi driver should go at any given time to maximize their chances of getting a fare. Uber & Lyft already do this for their drivers, but I'm not aware of any app that does this for NYC yellow cabs.
Do they really? I just asked my Uber driver yesterday and he said that Uber does not provide him anything like that. I was quite surprised.
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#33That's super interesting. I wonder why my guy wandered really slowly up Riverside Ave for like 30 minutes instead of going inland to find a fare. Looks like it's really slow between 11am and 3pm, and constant driving otherwise.
The route information between trips is just a guess. So he could have really just stopped for dinner or something.
Taxi drivers don't usually stop for dinner when on shift. The closest they will do is run into a bodega, or stop on the corner and have a streetfood vendor hand them something into the cab.
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#34Seems like this data could be used to build an app that suggests where a taxi driver should go at any given time to maximize their chances of getting a fare. Uber & Lyft already do this for their drivers, but I'm not aware of any app that does this for NYC yellow cabs.
Most taxi drivers already know the right time/areas to go to get hailed, and to get the kind of hails they want(IE not to JFK or LGA, the bronx, most of queens/BK). Even though it is just tribal knowledge, I'd be really surprised if it wasn't largely accurate.
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#35I see a taxi route on: Sunday, June 29th 1913...
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#36I was making a heatmap for taxi data : published for first 5 days for july http://akuchlous.github.io/NYC_CAB_ANALYTICS/ maybe can help Uber / Taxi drivers figure out where to get most taxifare pickups are! hosting on github.io pushing to github.io is awesome. make maps, save and push!
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Perhaps the link was edited since your comment, but the links "July 1" through "July 6" return taxi heatmaps, as promised.
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#37Seems like this data could be used to build an app that suggests where a taxi driver should go at any given time to maximize their chances of getting a fare. Uber & Lyft already do this for their drivers, but I'm not aware of any app that does this for NYC yellow cabs.
From what I've heard, Lyft is just testing this sort of heatmap with Android drivers, and that it isn't yet available for iOS drivers.
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#38You shouldn't serve your assets (/js, /css) off of heroku. They aren't loading because of the request volume.
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#39I watched a few different cabs and they all seemed to generate around $600 in a 24 hour period. Am I the only person who thinks this is astonishingly low?
astonishingly low? I thought that was pretty high
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#40Today I learned that Heroku is awful at keeping up with Hacker News + Reddit traffic.