In-class Programming: Blue Bikes

DS 4200, Northeastern University

In this assignment you will learn how to make a simple spatial visualization using a scatterplot with a map background.

Blue Bike rentals in March, 2017

Bluebikes is a bike share company that rents bikes for short-term trips in the Boston area. They have made various data publicly available. On this page, we are visualizing the locations of their bike stations in March, 2017.

Acknowledgments

List here where any code, packages/libraries, text, images, designs, etc. that you leverage come from.

D3: Data-Driven Documents by Mike Bostock. In particular:
- d3-brush, which let you select a one- or two-dimensional region using the mouse or touch. We use it for brushing.
- d3-dispatch, which lets you register named callbacks and call them with arguments. We use it for linking.
Data from Bluebikes's System Data page, accessed March 07, 2020.