/osd-bike-racks

Open source release of city bike rack locations throughout Chicago.

Primary LanguageRMIT LicenseMIT

README

The City of Chicago is releasing selected datasets from the data portal under the MIT License (see below). This repository contains:

  1. Data in a comma separated values (CSV) format.
  2. Examples of importing data into R.

Working with CSV Data

The data was released as a CSV file. Below are some simple instructions which will show you how to load CSV in R.

R

Find an example script here. This example will import the data in R and create a couple of maps.

Instructions:

  1. Set the working directory to the location of the downloaded repository.

    setwd("path\\to\\folder")

  2. Import data:

    bike.racks <- read.csv("data\\Bike_Racks.csv")

  3. Review the new dataframe:

    head(bike.racks)

  4. Ensure the map works:

    plot(bikes.racks$Longitude, bike.racks$Latitude)

Here is the output you should expect from the plot() command: plot(bike.racks)

License

This data is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt.