This is part four of our series exploring data from the DMV area’s Capital Bikeshare system. Today’s post, which comes after a short four-year hiatus, is a retrospective exploring the nine-year evolution of the Capital Bikeshare system, which just marked its 25 millionth ride, an incredible achievement. Read on toRead More →
No President has faced calls for his impeachment so early in his presidency. Is this driven by Trump’s deep and universal unpopularity? To answer this question, we examined Trump’s presidential approval ratings by political party affiliation from Gallup. Trump remains exceptionally popular among Republicans as shown in Figure 1 below. InRead More →
In August, we examined crime trends across D.C. neighborhoods and made a few interesting observations about the neighborhoods responsible for D.C.’s crime surge in 2015. With Halloween coming up, we wondered whether certain neighborhoods experience a seasonal spike in crime this time of year. In this post, we use D.C. crimeRead More →
This is part three of our four-part series exploring data from the DMV area’s Capital Bikeshare system. In the first two parts of the series (published in early 2015), we examined rider and bike patterns based on data from 2.9+ million Bikeshare rides taken in 2014. Now that it’s OctoberRead More →
Earlier this week, we examined the surge in D.C.’s crime rate in 2015. We discovered that, as of August 2015, D.C.’s monthly homicide rate had more than doubled from the 2011 to 2014 average. Since 2011, there had been only one month when D.C.’s murder rate reached as high asRead More →
What is happening in DC this summer? The City appears to be in the midst of a crime surge with a new high-profile shooting, stabbing, or violent assault every week. Does the crime data support this observation? This post will examine the DC crime rate so far this year comparedRead More →
This is part two of our four-part series exploring system data from the DMV area’s Capital Bikeshare system. This post is all about the sturdy workhorse of the bikesharing system, the bright red bike-tank that has become a staple of the DC backdrop. We’ll explore bike activity and workload patternsRead More →
Capital Bikeshare, the DMV area’s bikesharing system, has exploded in popularity since it was first implemented in 2010. The sight of bright red bike-tanks docked in bike racks that have sprung up all over DC during the last few years is hard to miss. While I am a huge fanRead More →
Measuring the incidents of crime in Washington, D.C. during 2011-2014. Data sourced from http://data.octo.dc.gov/ and can be filtered by offense, quadrant, ward and time. Crime Dashboard Monthly PatternRead More →