This project explores the variables, structure, patterns, oddities, and underlying relationships of New York City Uber pickups from January through June of 2015. The Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) released the data after receiving a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request from FiveThirtyEight on June 22, 2015. I pulled the data from the FiveThirtyEight github repo found here. Each observation represents a single pickup with the following columns:
| Variable | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dispatching_base_num | The TLC base company code that dispatched the Uber |
| Pickup_date | The full date of the pickup in yyyy-mm-dd h:min:s format |
| Affiliated_base_num | The TLC base company code of the Uber pickup |
| locationID | The pickup location ID of the Uber pickup |
| Borough | The New York City Borough where the pickup took place |
| Zone | The neighborhood in the New York City Borough where the pickup took place |
| lat | The latitude of the pickup Zone |
| lon | The longitude of the pickup Zone |
| month | The month that the pickup took place |
| date | The date (1-31) that the pickup took place |
| day | The day (Sunday-Saturday) that the pickup took place |
| hour | The hour that the pickup took place |