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UberLens - visualize Uber fare rates in your area

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Using the standalone python script, you can create your own visualization: blah Fares surrounding a certain location (first attempt at visualizing fares): hmm check the repo for the pic

Notes

Get data --> visualize data

Microsoft office locations:

  • Redmond
  • Bellevue
  • Seattle

From each office, we want to visualize how Uber's fares change within a certain radius. Perhaps we'll see price spikes at points of interest (POIs)... Perhaps we'll see a nice gradient... It'd also be interesting to see how the fares change over time, if they change at all.

That said, here's the flow of information: Coordinate points of addresses -> Get fare estimate from origin to address -> visualize fares on a map. Here's our data sources:

  • Addresses - From list of coordinates, remove those that don't correspond to a valid address.
  • From origin to every lat lng pair, call Uber API to get a fare estimate.

Plot [lat, lng, fare] on a map.

Pretty straightforward!