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Geofencing 340 million NYC taxi locations with Google Cloud Dataflow

Friday, December 19, 2014

Posted by Thorsten Schaeff, Sales Engineer Internexperimenting with itupdateNYC neighbourhood tabulationthis public BigQuery tableyour Google Developers Consolethis link

Thematic map showing the distribution of taxi pick-up locations in NYC in 2013. Midtown South is New Yorkers’ favourite area to get a cab with almost 28 million trips starting there, which is roughly 1 trip per second. You can find an interactive map here.

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The interactive Cloud Dataflow graph of your Pipeline, helping you to monitor and debug your Pipeline in your Google Developer Console in the browser.

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As cash tips aren’t reported, only 52% of trips have a tip noted, therefore the values regarding tips could be inaccurate.Here's

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1 As cash tips aren’t reported, only 52% of trips have a tip noted, therefore the values regarding tips could be inaccurate.