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NYC taxi visualization

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Re: NYC taxi visualization

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Post by mcot2 »

First of all... this is really great. Really good job.

On the ipad a few things are wonky with the layout, you may want to test on there and fix the few UI issues.

It would be cool to see $/hr precalculted as well. It may be better to make the right side a table with each row being a ride and then totals at the bottom too.

Re: NYC taxi visualization

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Post by joshfraser »

bjryan wrote: post #32
sethbannon wrote: post #16

Seems 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.

I thought they built it but scrapped it after discovering the predictions weren't very good.

Re: NYC taxi visualization

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Post by peteretep »

maxmcd wrote: post #7

The taxi data just has startpoint and endpoint correct? So the route in between each trip is just a guess? Edit: Whoops, from the about page: > The raw data include only start and end locations for each trip. These points were run through Google's Directions API to create the routes shown in this visualization. Of course, these are Google's best choice, not necessarily the one the taxi took.

This explains some very slow drifts in the middle

Re: NYC taxi visualization

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Post by yock »

seanmccann wrote: post #31
yock wrote: post #29

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.

It's actually half of that, $25/hr.

Re: NYC taxi visualization

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Post by GBond »

potatolicious wrote: post #55
thrownaway2424 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't they want to get hailed to JFK?

Long drive, capped rates as already mentioned. Also once there you cannot immediately pick up another passenger - you have to go to the central "taxi pool" where you get to line up with dozens/hundreds of other cabs for the privilege of picking up a fare. So as a driver your choices are to wait forever in a line to pick up a fare from the airport, or beeline it back to Manhattan as quickly as you can with an empty ca…

Certain destinations (outer-boroughs) will earn you a "shorty" that lets cabbies skip the airport taxi pool lines. Most cabbies prefer this scenario.
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