A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bikes: Analyzing the NYC Bike Share System

I know it's a huge nit to pick, but did the editing on the title bother anyone else? "A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bikes" implies that there are 22 million Citibikes. They're actually numbered in the thousands. The article is an analysis of 22 million RIDES.

A great idea but we had a major flaw near us in the Financial District --- no parking!!!<p>We had a station outside our office, but in the morning, the station was full -- you had to go find another station that had open slots -- sometimes a long way off, somewhat defeating the point to begin with.

Here&#x27;s a notebook with analysis of Citi Bike data by Ben Wellington of I Quant NY: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pub.beakernotebook.com&#x2F;#&#x2F;publications&#x2F;560eb102-736b-4477-98d3-ebeeb5772efa?fullscreen=false" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pub.beakernotebook.com&#x2F;#&#x2F;publications&#x2F;560eb102-736b-...</a> it&#x27;s missing the maps but shows you how to go right from the raw data.

I take Citibike to and from work every day, rain or snow, if anyone has questions.

Nice viz ! That&#x27;s awesome to have such a dataset available, kudos Citi Bike ! I wish we had the same openness here in Paris, I would love to compile the same view for velibs (that&#x27;s how our shared bikes are called). All we have is an API for bike station data <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.jcdecaux.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.jcdecaux.com</a> :&#x2F;

<i>&gt; For what it’s worth, most Citi Bike trips start and end in Manhattan</i><p>That&#x27;s because Manhattan has the huge majority of Citibike terminals. In Brooklyn it&#x27;s still virtually non existent (yet it has a high population density).

I tried Citibike when it came out, but there were no bikes in either direction of my commute way too frequently. I have read that they have improved it, but I haven&#x27;t tried it recently.

I think his analysis is flawed because the Google Maps routing algo highly favors the bike lanes throughout the city, often taking you out of the way to use them.