FIND MY RIDEIMPROVING YOUR BIKE SHARE EXPERIENCE

Diane Ivy

FIND MY RIDE

▸ Bike shares are awesome

▸ Flexible and convenient

▸ But only if a bike is available when you need it

FIND MY RIDE

▸ Bike shares are awesome

▸ Flexible and convenient

▸ But only if a bike is available when you need it

FIND MY RIDE

▸ Can get current status from Hubway website or 3rd party apps.

▸ Often bikes will be gone by the time you get to the station.

▸ Can we help people find a bike when they need it?

FIND MY RIDE

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Residential Station

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Business Station

Bike Data - 96 bike share stations - 2 years of station data - number of bikes available every minute

at each station

Weather Data - hourly historical weather data from

NOAA

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INPUT start location

and time

Googlemaps api - calculate walk time to nearby station

Forecastio - get weather forecast

MODEL use trained

model at each station to

predict # bikes

FEATURES month

day of week time of day

(minute) precipitation temperature

holidays

OUTPUT 0, 1-2, 2+ bike

availability

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▸ Randomly selected whole days to train, test, and validate on

▸ Trained model on 60% of the data

▸ Chose hyper parameters testing on 20% of data

▸ Scored model on last 20% of the data on recall score of 0 bikes

0 Bikes 1-2 Bikes 2+ BikesActual

0 Bikes

1-2 Bikes

2+ Bikes

Pred

icte

d0.83 0.05 0.12

0.11 0.30 0.59

0.05 0.11 0.84

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0.5

1.0