Example: Bike Sharing in the Bay Area
Interact
We end this chapter by using all the methods we have learned to examine a new and large dataset. We will also introduce map_table
, a powerful visualization tool.
The Bay Area Bike Share service published a dataset describing every bicycle rental from September 2014 to August 2015 in their system. There were 354,152 rentals in all. The columns are:
- An ID for the rental
- Duration of the rental, in seconds
- Start date
- Name of the Start Station and code for Start Terminal
- Name of the End Station and code for End Terminal
- A serial number for the bike
- Subscriber type and zip code
trips = Table.read_table('trip.csv')
trips