Montreal Bikeshare Data Analysis I: Bikeshare Station Visualization and Analysis
How to visualize the bikeshare stations of the BIXI system? How about the changes of bikeshare stations from 2014 to 2021?
BIXI is a bikeshare system created in 2014 by the city of Montreal. According to the website of BIXI [1], the BIXI system has more than 9,600 bikes and more than 800 stations in Montreal, Canada. BIXI Montreal is an active transportation mode contributing to the health and well-being of Montrealers [1]. This story introduces how to visualize and analyze the BIXI bikeshare station data in Python. Note that the data is from the BIXI Open Data website [2].
To reproduce the following content with Python, please check out our GitHub repository: https://github.com/xinychen/cycling.
BIXI Open Data
BIXI open data plan provides trip history that includes trip records, station information, trip duration, and membership information from 2014 to 2022. We can approach both trip history and station information. In this story, we only use station information of each year for analysis.
The station information is with .csv format, we process the data and make it available at…
