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Thursday, November 19, 2020

Taxis Are The Novel Pizza


In the early on days of online mapping the become to demo for whatsoever novel mapping platform was an interactive mapped visualization of pizza restaurants. These days the become to demo map appears to live on New York taxi data. Here are but a few of the interactive maps which bring visualized taxi journeys inward New York.

NYC Taxi Rides is a comprehensive information visualization of New York yellowish cab taxi rides. The map was created to demonstrate the capabilities of the MapD Extreme Analytics Platform. Using the NYC Taxi Ride visualization it is possible to explore patterns inward New York taxi journeys inward a release of ways.

The information dashboard consists of a release of connected components. These include components for payment types, days of the calendar week & fourth dimension of twenty-four hr menstruum as well as an interactive map. The components let yous to filter the information shown on the map and, if yous guide information from ane of the components, volition automatically update all the other charts as well as the map. So, for example, if yous guide Tuesday on the 'Records past times Day' element yous tin thought but the locations of Tuesday's taxi pick-ups on the map as well as the updated charts for the other tape types for Tuesday's taxi data.

The NYC Taxi Rides map uses taxi information from Dec 2015.


The NYC Cab Rides map is an interactive map visualizing Yellow Cab trip information inward New York City from July 2015 - June 2016. The map allows yous to run across where the near New York cab rides begin, the pick-up locations where cab drivers tin await the largest tips, where inward the metropolis passengers pay inward cash & where they pay past times credit, the release of passengers as well as the length of journeys.

The map uses hexagonal binning to render a spatial histogram of New York taxi ride data. The hexagons correspond the release of rides inward each place on the map inward 2 unlike ways. It uses both a color ramp as well as the size of the hexagons themselves to signal the full release of rides at each place on the map.

If yous hover over a hexagon on the map yous tin thought the exact release of rides every bit good every bit the average length & terms of the rides as well as the percent of passengers that paid past times cash as well as credit card. If yous click on a hexagon on the map hence the map changes to visualize the taxi rides to or from that place from everywhere else inward the city.


The NYC Cab Rides Map was made to partner John Nelson's storey map which besides explores Yellow Cab trip information inward New York City. In Taxi Cab Terrain Nelson examines how unlike New York boroughs purpose as well as pay for taxi cab journeys. He hence looks at the underlying socio-economic information inward those neighborhoods to run across if they assist explicate the differences inward how inhabitants of unlike New York neighborhoods purpose as well as pay for cabs.

In Taxi Cab Terrain Esri has mapped out the locations where the near New York cab rides begin, the pick-up locations where cab drivers tin await the largest tips, where inward the metropolis passengers pay inward cash & where they pay past times credit, the release of passengers as well as the length of journeys.

Back inward 2014 Chris Whong besides created an impressive interactive map using New York taxi data. Chris' map provided a dandy insight into the daily life of ane New York taxi driver. Chris' NYC Taxis: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Day inward the Life is a MapBox visualization of the journeying of ane New York taxi over the course of didactics of 24 hours.

You tin besides explore New York taxi journeys inward the NYC Taxi Holiday Visualization, which animates taxi journeys from New York's airports over the course of didactics of a calendar month as well as half, as well as Hubcab, a mapped visualization of 170 ane M k taxi trips over ane yr inward New York.