Bike Sharing providers — Here’s a guide to boost up your business.

Puja P. Pathak
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
9 min readMar 22, 2021

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In this article, I present how a Machine Learning algorithm can help Bike Sharing providers to boost up their revenue numbers.

Photo credits — Maria Teneva on Unslpash

Bike sharing systems are gaining popularity worldwide, due to the flexibility that they provide to hire and return the bikes. You can hire a bike from a bike sharing provider, from your convenient location, for a short period and return it to any other station (also called dock) belonging to the provider as per your convenient location.

This is essentially a self-service and there are options at many places to access it via a mobile app. These services are usually available for one time use but various bike sharing providers also give a membership option.

It is fun to analyse a data set containing information based on various meteorological surveys and people’s styles and how we can use this information to produce some useful insights.

So we have a data set which has all the above information for an American Bike Sharing Company which wants to understand :

  • Significant variables in predicting the demand for shared bikes.
  • How well these variables describe the bike demands.

We will build a Multiple Linear Regression Model for predicting the demand for shared…

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Puja P. Pathak
Analytics Vidhya

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