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Uber’s Ride with the Sun: Tracking the 2017 Solar Eclipse

August 31, 2017 / Global
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Figure 1: We tracked ride requests for 40 U.S. cities in the path of totality for the 2017 Solar Eclipse on Monday, August 21, 2017.
Figure 2: From East Coast to West Coast, Uber mapped 40 major U.S. cities on the path of totality for the recent solar eclipse to determine trip request frequency before, during, and after the event.
Figure 3: Taking a closer look at Figure 2, we can see that trip requests were low in nearly each of these 40 cities along the path of totality when the eclipse hit.
Figure 4: In this visualization, we map Uber rider activity as the Monday, August 21, 2017 solar eclipse made its way across the U.S.
Figure 5: Uber trip requests dropped in Nashville, TN during the total solar eclipse, spiking back up after it passed.
Figure 6: Uber trip requests dropped in Columbia, MO during the total solar eclipse, spiking back up after it passed.

Posted by Shan He

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