Weather Impact on NYC Taxi Fare
Weather Impact on NYC Taxi Fare
This project is a continuation in part of the [NYC taxi fare prediction] and asks a simple but not so straightforward to answer question:
Everything else being equal (ceteris-paribus) how much additional far should people expect to pay when the weather is bad?
Some of the reasons why this question may be challenging , although there are notebooks in Kaggle that try to address it, are:
- The dataset needs augmentation with weather data (people have done this in Kaggle and you can too)
- When the weather is bad, the demand shifts both temporally and spatially.
- When the weather is bad the trip durations are longer due to either weather or congestion.
You need to provide your answer as a table of 100 dominant zones (pickup - dropoffs) with the predicted % fare difference across all types of bad weather (rain, snow etc.)
A zone is a geographic (lat, long) area of [100m x 100m]. It is dominant if the pickups or dropoffs are much higher compared to another.