Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips

Re:Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips by apaprocki on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:48AM (#10582280)

Can spikes be seen in the late-night data when new businesses open around the pickup address? In the Williamsburg section, the reason why the N 11th St block area is bright red in the observation is mostly due to the opening of a hotel/restaurant and two very popular electronic music clubs. Prior to those 3 businesses opening I can't think of any reason why anyone would be in that 1 block area late at night. Is there anything city agencies could do with this feedback loop of data after businesses open to assess their impact on an area? Liquor licenses? MTA?

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Re:Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips by lil_tee on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @05:05PM (#10584333)

Sure, there are undoubtedly lots of examples of businesses that opened in desolate areas and created new taxi activity where there had been none previously, I just happened to focus on Williamsburg for the post.

Another idea that I didn't get around to doing was to look at concert venues and measure taxi traffic around particular concerts to see if it would correlate to bands' overall popularity

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Re:Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips by untog on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @02:40PM (#10583452)

Certainly, there was a huge change when the Barclays Center opened in Brooklyn.

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