{"id":370,"date":"2015-01-07T22:39:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2015-01-07T22:40:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:40:34","slug":"link-bad-taxi-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"LINK: Bad Taxi Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_inline_nhmjs9Fcm61szvr4h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-371\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_inline_nhmjs9Fcm61szvr4h-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_nhmjs9Fcm61szvr4h\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_inline_nhmjs9Fcm61szvr4h-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_inline_nhmjs9Fcm61szvr4h.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I Quant NY is a Tumbler dedicated to New York City data stories.<\/p>\n<p>It generally relies on the city&#8217;s Open Data sets, but <a href=\"http:\/\/iquantny.tumblr.com\/post\/107245431809\/how-software-in-half-of-nyc-cabs-generates-5-2\">this story<\/a>\u00a0started with an article in BusinessWeek about taxi tipping. The reporter actually had to request the data, and then showed some stuff that I Quant NY had trouble with.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a wonderful (and I use that term precisely, though I know it is also funny) detective story investigated through math, and nailed with actual evidence: receipts! It won&#8217;t spoil things if reveal\u00a0that a sizable if possibly unintentional fraud is involved.<\/p>\n<p>Wonderful, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Quant NY is a Tumbler dedicated to New York City data stories. It generally relies on the city&#8217;s Open Data sets, but this story\u00a0started with an article in BusinessWeek about taxi tipping. The reporter actually had to request the data, and then showed some stuff that I Quant NY had trouble with. The result &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LINK: Bad Taxi Math<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}