If you give a Rat a MetroCard

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✨ If You Give A Rat A MetroCard won Most imaginative use of data! I also presented the making of If You Give A Rat A MetroCard at NYC School of Data. ✨

If You Give A Rat A MetroCard

The MTA Data Challenge “…invites community members, developers, and data enthusiasts to harness the power of MTA’s open data. Participants will develop a project that creatively utilizes at least one MTA open dataset.”

For my submission, I wrote and illustrated a zine on some subway ridership behaviors. You can view the analysis here .

Some notes on the analysis

I was exploring some other ideas, but unfortunately ran out of time. Some of the questions I’d liked to have answered include:

• How does ridership change during sports events?
• Can you find cool neighborhoods based on Friday night destination trends?
• How does ridership change during parades and events?

If you’re interested in exploring those please do!