The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has publicly released a dataset of taxi trips from January 2009 — June 2016 with GPS coordinates for starting and endpoints. Chris Whong originally sent a FOIA request to the TLC, getting them to release the data, and has produced a famous visualization, NYC Taxis: A Day in the Life. Mark Litwintschik benchmarked various relational database and big data technologies using this dataset given its moderate 400GB size. And notably, Todd W. Schneider produced some really nice summaries of the dataset, some of which are similar to work I show here. I actually was not aware of Todd’s work on this topic until after this post was written, so although there is a fair bit of overlap, this post and the graphics in it are original.
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