Real-time Demand forecasting Analysis of CitiBike

This is my capstone project for ITM891

Need for Forecasting demand

Monitor Surge Pricing
Improve overall customer satisfaction with service
Allow forecasts to take into account changes in availability of other forms of transit, new development, etc

Project Pipeline

1. Data source

   1. Citibike historical data is available here
   2. API data available here

2. Transform - Using Python, Jupyter notebook

3. Modeling

   1. Linear Regression
   2. Time series
   3. Facebook Prophet

4. Evaluation - Forecast model and evaluate

5. Visualization - Using Tableau and Matplotlib

PPT Presentation