Interactive NYC taxi heatmap

https://www.imjasonh.com/taxi/map

by ImJasonH • 12 years ago

14 9 12 years ago

Jakob• 12 years ago

How come Tuesday looks way different than all other days?

verelo• 12 years ago

At 2am it looks pretty different (which is an odd default right?), at other times it looks pretty much the same. I used 6pm for comparisons and the heat-map was much more similar.

tricolon• 12 years ago

At 2am it looks pretty different (which is an odd default right?)

Not so odd—especially on a Saturday, I imagine it's right when a lot of people are tipsy or drunk and just want to get home safely, cost be damned.

ImJasonH2• 12 years ago

I picked 2am Saturday as the default time because it seemed the most interesting. 5pm Tuesday looks very different. Even 4am Saturday has different hotspots than two hours earlier.

frenchman_in_ny• 12 years ago

The sliders are buggy for me under FF33. The display stays stuck at 2AM / Saturday / heat.

uberneo• 12 years ago

Where have you got this data .. also any points about the technologies used?

johnm111888• 12 years ago

NYC has a open data policy. http://iquantny.tumblr.com/ has great analysis and commentary on a lot of the open NYC data that you might find interesting.

ImJasonH2• 12 years ago

The data is from http://chriswhong.com/open-data/foil_nyc_taxi/ -- I pulled 10k random pickups from each day/time for the heatmaps.

I used http://leafletjs.com/ and https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.heat for the visualization.

Interactive NYC taxi heatmap

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