NYC Open Data Project II -- My Citibike

NYC Open Data Project II -- My Citibike

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Updated: Apr 25, 2014

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Slides:

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Video:

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Meetup Announcement:

In this workshop, Vivian Zhang shared how to scrap the data from citibike website every 5 minutes and applyed two modeling techique to predict availability of bike and rack in coming 15 and 30 minutes.

Speaker: Vivian Zhang, CTO and co-founder of SupStat Inc, organizer of NYC Open Data Meetup, Founder of NYC Data Science Academy. She teaches R and Hadoop.

Outline:

- Overview

- Citibike Data

- Scrapping

- Data Description

- Modeling

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Other Useful Info Link:

If you want to try it by yourself, you can download the citibike data from the link below:
https://slides.nycdatascience.com/data/development.sqlite3

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