Data Porn: Software Engineer and Analyst Gives Citi Bike Data the Royal Treatment

Software engineer and analyst Todd W. Schneider recently posted an amazing in-depth analysis of our favorite local public bike-share system: Citi Bike.

With the recent news that the Citi Bike system topped 10 million rides in 2015, making it one of the world’s largest bike shares, it seemed like an opportune time to investigate the publicly available data.… I’ve split the analysis into sections, covering visualization, the relationship between cyclist age, gender, and Google Maps time estimates, modeling the impact of the weather on Citi Bike ridership, and more/

This interesting visualization captured in the screengrab above is all the ridership data for one day: Wednesday, September 16, 2015.

Check out the lengthy full article to find dozens more interesting graphs and visualizations like this one.

Matt Coneybeare

Matt Coneybeare

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Matt enjoys exploring the City's with his partner and son. He is an avid marathon runner, and spends most of his time eating, running, and working on cool stuff.

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