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Re:Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips by aw3c2 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:09PM (#10583959)
If you are already using PostgreSQL it makes no sense to involve Shapefiles in analysis. Instead use PostGIS.
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Re:Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips by minimaxir on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:43PM (#10584180)
You need to the Shapefiles to tell where the districts in NYC actually are, though. (the GitHub repository in the OP's post contains the Shapefiles)
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