How does your driving compare to that of other people in your neighborhood? Did the car use in your zip code change between 2008 and 2011? How does driving in your zip code compare to that in other zip codes in Boston? The Boston Car Explorer lets you explore these questions and more.
Select a year to get started. This will randomly select 1,000 records from that year. To look at the data for only one zip code, click on the map.
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Cars Measures [color: mi_per_day_ave; radius: gal_perday_ave]
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Cars by veh_type
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Click map to filter by zip codes
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Cars by hybrid
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Cars by fuel
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Cars by model year
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Cars by make_name
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One investigation we conducted was to focus on a popular subset of data -- 21 zipcodes within just the Boston municipality. This provided a more manageable dataset with which to visually explore intersections of many filters using multi-dimensional charting. Household income demographic data was incorporated as as a new filter. The resulting highly interactive "Boston Car Data Explorer" web page provides a sense of the variety of interacting factors, and can be extended to explore data for all of Massachusetts at the grid cell to county level. A next step in this effort would be to employ data analytics to identify alternative data sources for filters and measures, along with incorporating additional external data sources.