Uber vs. Cabs

Like Startbuck coffee, Uber became an affordable lifestyle in our daily life. When Uber launched the service in New York City in 2011, it became Uber’s biggest market. Variety of Uber’s services are expending all over the map. The traditional car service cab, affected directly since Uber has launched the services. Along with the fact, there are high tension between Uber and Cab industry. Without a good visualization it is hard to explain how does the Uber expending the market and how is the competition zones look like between Uber and cab industry.

This visualization map is effectively explaining where Uber pickups are increasing and where taxi rides are decreasing in New York City, and it also give answer of where the two parties’ conflict might occur.

This data visualization is a successful example. It is efficiently presenting the growing Uber market and submerging cabs market in New York City with three same geographic map. It not only clearly generates Uber pick up and Texi zone with deferent color but also evidently answers the title question “Are Ubers Supplementing or Replacing Cabs?”

Reference:

1. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-is-taking-millions-of-manhattan-rides-away-from-taxis/
2. http://www.businessinsider.com/ubers-history/#june-1998-scour-a-peer-to-peer-search-engine-startup-that-kalanick-had-dropped-out-of-ucla-to-join-snags-its-first-investment-from-former-disney-president-michael-ovitz-and-ron-burkle-of-yucaipa-companies-1