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Interactive NYC taxi heatmap

• Jakob 12y ago
  How come Tuesday looks way different than all other days?
  • verelo 12y 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 12y 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.
      • rabbidruster 12y ago
        Which also could be why Tuesday at 2am looks different. Many places are closed on Monday and people are probably less likely to go out.
    • ImJasonH 12y 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 12y ago
  The sliders are buggy for me under FF33. The display stays stuck at 2AM / Saturday / heat.
• uberneo 12y ago
  Where have you got this data .. also any points about the technologies used?
  • johnm111888 12y ago
    NYC has a open data policy. http://iquantny.tumblr.com/ http://iquantny.tumblr.com/ has great analysis and commentary on a lot of the open NYC data that you might find interesting.
  • ImJasonH 12y ago
    The data is from http://chriswhong.com/open-data/foil_nyc_taxi/ 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/ http://leafletjs.com/ and https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.heat https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.heat for the visualization.