Interactive NYC taxi heatmap

[ImJasonH]

https://www.imjasonh.com/taxi/map

[Jakob]

How come Tuesday looks way different than all other days?

[verelo → Jakob]

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 → verelo]

> 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 → tricolon]

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 → verelo]

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]

The sliders are buggy for me under FF33. The display stays stuck at 2AM / Saturday / heat.

[uberneo]

Where have you got this data .. also any points about the technologies used?

[ImJasonH → uberneo]

The data is from 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/ and https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.heat for the visualization.

[johnm111888 → uberneo]

NYC has a open data policy. http://iquantny.tumblr.com/ has great analysis and commentary on a lot of the open NYC data that you might find interesting.