Where New York takes a yellow cab
Every yellow medallion taxi trip the city publishes, attributed to the zone it started in and rolled up by day. Pick a metric, hover a zone, step through the months.
The numbers are the pipeline's own output, read straight from the Parquet files it wrote — nothing is mocked, sampled, or rounded up for effect. How they get made, and how much of each one is measured rather than assumed, is on the pipeline page.
The map
eight metrics · whole history
Every trip carries the pickup zone it started in, so the data is already a map — it just needs the outlines. These come from the TLC zone shapefile, simplified once and baked into the page. Hover a zone to read its whole profile, not just the metric it is coloured by.
Six buckets holding the same number of zones each, so the colour is a ranking, not a ratio — equal-width bands would paint everything except Midtown the same shade. Means built on a handful of trips are noisy, so the tooltip always shows the trip count underneath them.
Month by month
Trips per month
Every source month in the dataset. Click a bar to load it below.
Trips per day
Shaded bands are weekends. Saturday and Sunday have their own profile, so without them the Monday drop reads as an incident.
Show as a table
Busiest zones
The mean next to the median
Why the output carries both, plus a denominator: 122 rows out of 3.5 million hold 47 % of all miles driven, so the mean distance is overshot while the median does not move. Coverage says what share of the trips that mean is actually built from — read the mean with an eye on it.
| Zone | Borough | Trips | Mean dist. | Median | Coverage | Mean fare |
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These are yellow medallion taxis only — about 12 % of what New Yorkers spend on for-hire rides, and under 1.5 % outside Manhattan. Where the rest of the caveats come from, which rows were dropped and why, and whether today's run actually succeeded.
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