Uber-tastic Travels Analytics

Team Pear

Introduction to the project

Our project consists of various analytcs that look at for-hire ride services and their attributes such as time of pickup, locations where they started and ended, and the days they were used. We analzed the number of rides for-hire services have made, most popular times for pickups, and how they perform when compared to one-another. Our datasets consist of rides from the following services:

• Uber
• Lyft
• Diplo
• American
• Firstclass
• Highclass
• Prestige

Each of these ride services has unique parameters we had to work with. Uber rides gave us time, date, location by longitude and latitude, and a base number (Files listed of Uber_Rides_1.csv, Uber_Rides_2.csv, Uber_Rides_3.csv). Lyft rides gave us information about where people were picked up, dropped off, and the type of Lyft ride they used (File listed as cab_rides.csv). All other services provided a date, a time, and an address (File listed as FHV_rides.csv).

How to set up

Prerequisites

• Install an IDE that supports Javascript, NodeJS and HTML. We used Visual Studios
  • Make sure install Javascript, NodeJS, and HTML dependencies for the IDE
• Pull or clone this repository.

Installing Express

• open a terminal
• change the directory to the project directory
• into the terminal, enter

npm init -y

npm i -S express body-parser

• follow the prompts given

Installing Anime JS

for our loading animations we used Anime JS

• in the same terminal, enter

npm install animejs --save

Saving to File

• Your device may require this command to save data to file without crashing. This will expand the amount of memory the program has access to.

$env:NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096"

Installing Jtest

• Run the following command in the terminal:

npm install --save-dev jest

Installing the datasets

• download all the datasets here
  • make sure you are logged into a ucr email account to access the files
• make a folder in the project directory titled csv_files
• move the datasets into csv_files

Running Tests

-- in the same terminal, enter

npm test

Running the program

• in the same terminal, enter

node server

• in a web browser go to local host 3000

How to Navigate the Website

Search

• You can search through our database by clicking the "Search" button in the top right of the website.
• Depending on the Ride Service you choose, different parameters will appear for your search.
  • Uber: You must input a date range and a time range.
  • Lyft: You must select a Source (where the ride starts), a Destination (where the ride ends), and a Lyft Ride Type.
  • Other Ride Services: You must input a date range and a time range. You have the option to include a New York street name by typing it out. If no street name is provieded, your Search will only look for parameters matching you date range and time range.
• You have the option to edit any of your Search results by clicking the Edit Search Results checkbox below the search parameters.
  • When this box is checked, each piece of information about the rides from your search results will be editable.
  • You can save your changes to the ride by clicking the Update Ride button located to the right of the ride.
  • You can remove a ride by clicking the Remove Ride button located to the right of the ride. The search results will update after the ride is removed.
• You can scroll through your search results by clicking the >> and << buttons that appear below your search results to the left. At most, 20 results will show at a time.

Compare Ride Services Based On Month

• This analytic will show you a bar graph that compares the number of rides ride services have done in a given month.
• Using the top navigation bar, select the "compare number of rides by month" box to open the search menu.
• You will find two rows:
  • In the first row you can select the first ride service you want to compare and the month you want to learn about.
  • In the second row you can select the second ride service you want to compare and the month you want to learn about.
• Once you click compare, a graph will appear below the search fields.

Busiest Times

• This analytic will show you a line graph for a given ride service per an hour from Midnight to 11PM
• Using the top navigation bar, select the "pick-ups by the hour" button to open the ride service menu
  • click on a ride service option: Uber, American, Diplo, Highclass, Firstclass, or Prestige, and click on the "search times" button
• You will see a line graph, the y-axis represents the number of rides and the x-axis represents the hour of the day.

Compare Uber to Lyft

• This analytic will show you a pie chart comparing the total number of rides from Lyft and Uber
• Using the top navigation bar, select the "compare uber to lyft" button to open the ride service menu
• You will see a pie chart, dark blue is Lyft and light blue is Uber

Add a new ride

• On the bottom bar you will find six button. The left three buttons will allow you to add a new ride for Lyft, Uber, and Other for-hire vehicle (FHV) services.
• After clicking a button, you will see a new row pop up on screen where you can enter the information relevant to your ride.
• Once you have completed adding in the necessary information, click add ride and a prompt will tell you the ride is added.

Save your rides to file

• You can save your rides to file by clicking any of the three buttons along the buttom that say "Save the collection of". They save specific rides to specific dataset.