Since I've lived in NY, I've seen plenty of cool visualizations and stories...about where pickups happen, time of day, volume, etc., and I've periodically asked around, where does the data come from? Obviously I didn't ask well enough...because if all it took was an old-fashioned public request (and a brand new hard drive)...wow.
The trip data is interesting enough...but the fare data is really mind blowing. Everytime I get out of a cab, I wonder, "should I have tipped that much?" The (crowd-based) answer is apparently not that hard to find...
Since I've lived in NY, I've seen plenty of cool visualizations and stories...about where pickups happen, time of day, volume, etc., and I've periodically asked around, where does the data come from? Obviously I didn't ask well enough...because if all it took was an old-fashioned public request (and a brand new hard drive)...wow.
The trip data is interesting enough...but the fare data is really mind blowing. Everytime I get out of a cab, I wonder, "should I have tipped that much?" The (crowd-based) answer is apparently not that hard to find...