Tracking City Behavior With Taxi Pickup Data
Using data provided by the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, Sense Networks has put together the CabSense mobile app that visualizes taxi pickups by location and frequency. Plotting millions of GPS data points onto a heat map, CabSense directs users to more efficient spots for hailing cabs. With this data, NYT Interactive has developed a web-based tool that displays the data along a week-long timeline; by dragging a slider to move hour-by-hour, users can get a sense of what parts of the city are hotspots at different times of the day and week.
[via Flowing Data]
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Kyle Studstill is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. Kyle works as a consultant working at the New York office of PSFK. His background is in analysis, from the analysis of cultural and technological change, to analysis of consumer and human insight, to military intelligence analysis with the US Intelligence and Security Command. Kyle loves the future, much like O'Brien from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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| TOPICS: | Automotive, Electronics & Gadgets, Travel |
| TAGS: | CabSense, Location Based Services, Sense Networks, Taxis, visualizations |
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