#CHICAGO DIVVY BIKES FREE#

These smart narratives act as a companion during the data discovery process, highlighting relevant insights in natural language, so you can make faster, more accurate decisions. Narratives for Power BI automatically communicates insights from your data, in natural language. I teamed up with Narrative Science, a Chicago-based startup and a leader in Advanced Natural Language Generation (Advanced NLG) for the enterprise to leverage the company’s Advanced NLG extension for Microsoft Power BI. After downloading the dataset from the open data portal, I opened it with Microsoft PowerBI, an analytics tool that makes it extremely easy to manipulate, visualize, and learn from the Divvy data. With over 9 million rows of data, that’s a lot of interesting information to explore!Īs a civic tech fellow, I thought this was a great opportunity to learn more about my city through data.

#CHICAGO DIVVY BIKES FREE#

Whether you’re a bike-enthusiast or policy maker, you can easily digest, use, and gain insights from this free data set.

Every single Divvy trip is recorded and made available to the public. The City of Chicago releases city data across different categories including the Divvy bike share program. By publishing the massive amounts of data that the city collects through the publicly available city data portal, Chicago committed itself to becoming a data-driven city that would use technology to identify and promote strategies for social progress and economic growth. In addition to having one of the largest bike-sharing networks in the country, Chicago was also one of the first cities to have an open data policy as well as the appointment of a chief data officer. With over 6,000 bikes available at 580+ stations, both residents and visitors have a fun, accessible, and efficient option for traveling around Chicago. You can’t miss the brightly blue-colored bikes and numerous docking stations scattered across the city. Since June 2013, Divvy has been Chicago’s official bike-sharing system. Search Search /chicago/Īs the weather gets warmer, spring brings a blog post combining two great things in the City of Chicago: bike-sharing and open data!

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