Chris Messina

Uber Movement - Access to anonymized data from over 2 billion Uber trips

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Steven Rueter
I think I heard about this on NPR a few weeks back. This is an absolute gift for data scientists. Awesome.
Allan Yarmulnik
Curious if theres any weakness in the granularity of the anonymized data to be able to reverse engineer specific houses/addresses in less populated areas?
Benjamin Lupton
@allany888 in most Australian cities and all suburban areas apartments are rare, so unless they fudge the radius of start and finish areas, I don't think it is that anonymous in such areas… > How is Uber Movement preserving the privacy of Uber riders and drivers? Preserving rider and driver privacy is our #1 priority. All data is anonymized and aggregated to ensure no personally identifiable information or user behavior can be surfaced through the Movement tool. Fortunately seems they don't provide pathways for individual journeys. Maybe they don't provide pathways at all?
Jack Smith
wow, what an incredible idea
Kevin Siskar
This is brilliant. Especially for the cities Uber still is not in, such as all of New York State outside NYC. Great way to convince them of the added benefit of having Uber in their city.
Matthew Helbig
@chrismessina can we please do some data visualization with this?
Aleksandra
This is exciting! Though the data will be open to general public in a few months only, we are looking forward to making our cities more efficient in terms of personal transport (no need to own a car now) and public transport too.
Mohamed Saleh
Brilliant.... but I have a question... I have go through their FAQs and found the following ================= What are the licensing terms? Movement makes all insights available under the Creative Commons, Attribution Non-Commercial license. ================= So that means that we cannot use these data or build a product around that, Am I correct?
João Vitor Ch. Silva
@engmsaleh Nee to check the license specifics, but usually you can't sell the data itself, but can offer services based on that.
Darshan Gajara
Uber Uber all the way. I'm just loving the recent upgrades and new launches from Uber.
Darshan Gajara
@johnnymitche11 Oh, Lyft is a great company as well! Guess it's doing pretty well in the US, but Uber is clearly dominating the Asian market.
Matt Keas
This is :100:
Michael Joseph
I'd love to know how Uber will be spreading awareness of this with cities. Is this something they'll proactively promote, or just leave available for discovery? Because I doubt most city officials and planners are hanging out on Product Hunt, though I could be wrong :)
Scott
That's amazing. What a boon to Transit planners.
Ariel Assaraf
@iamredlus grab a shovel and dig in!
lior redlus
@arielassaraf crazy :) reminds me of this interesting #podcast http://freakonomics.com/podcast/...
Tom Frauenfelder
Good on Uber for sharing this. As someone with a little urban planning education information like this is incredibly valuable to planners. My question; will this be publically accessible?
Michael Joseph
@tomfrauenfelder The main site states that they'll make it available to the general public in the coming months.
Katerina Stro
This is amazing!
Vijay Michalik
This is awesome. I wonder how many city planning authorities are looking at this right now?
Donté Ledbetter
A great way to visualize real-time data about our cities!
Graham Gnall
Look forward to seeing lots of projects built off this. Are there raw data sets or is the analysis done without the tool?
Arif Akhmedzade
This is really useful thing!
Aaron Mason
This is a great move Uber. Useful data for scientists, city planners and mobility companies.
Tarun Gangwani
Will there be an API for this?