aboudiop / uberbycity

Visualizing Uber Data

Uber By City

Check out UberByCity live here.

This tool charts either the current price of an Uber trip from the airport to the center of the city, or the current wait time to get an Uber at the airport. You can add and remove cities to the chart with the controls on the left. If a city name is associated with more than one airport, click the bar to cycle through the airports.

Technology

This project was built with React, Redux, d3, and webpack, based on the redux-easy-boilerplate repo. It looks up airport codes from city names using the Developer.aero Airport API, then uses Google's geocoding API to look up coordinates for the airport and the city center, and finally gets current estimates from the Uber API.

Running locally

To run the code locally, you'll have to register for API keys with the 3 services mentioned above, then rename config/development.js.example to config/development.js and place the keys in the appropriate places in that module. Then npm install, then npm start and navigate to localhost:3000.

To-do

• Better city specification
• Handle non-USD currency
• Make it good on mobile