How I investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C

Re:How I investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C by greenleafjacob on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:09AM (#11532754)

Why did the author choose Washington, D.C. rather than NYC for which there is a public data set of 1 billion yellow cab trips and partial data on 19 million Uber trips? [1]

[1] http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-ta...

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Re:How I investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C by danso on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:19AM (#11532786)

I think it's because the author is based out of Maryland...and the historical Uber trip data doesn't provide much insight on surge pricing, at least in the way the API can in real time and by specific vehicle.

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Re:How I investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C by putdat on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:15AM (#11533785)

If anyone wants to take a look at the TLC Yellow Cab dataset for December 2015 (without downloading the entire file), it can be viewed here: https://putdat.com/WgsjFsT

It's 2GB and ~11.5MM rows. That's about four trips per second!

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Re:How I investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C by dajohnson89 on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:11PM (#11535439)

Besides the author being local, DC has some pretty interesting demographic/geography patterns.

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