Predicting Taxi Ride Fares in New York City
Taxi services aren’t cheap, so it makes sense you would want to know how much your next fare is likely to cost. This project aims to predict the ride fare of taxi rides in New York City. The final model takes into consideration the ride distance and time of year and day.
The Data
The data is provided by Kaggle, found here.
Technologies
Completed in Python, the following packages are used
- Pandas
- NumPy
- Matplotlib
- GeoPy
- SKLearn
Launch
All necessary code is included in the Jupyter notebook. The data file can be found in the data folder.