Why did the author choose Washington, D.C. rather than NYC for which there is a public data set of 1 billion yellow cab trips and partial data on 19 million Uber trips? [1]
[1] http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-ta...
[1] http://toddwschneider.com/posts/analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-ta...
It's 2GB and ~11.5MM rows. That's about four trips per second!