peterstos / bike_sharing_demand

Combining historical usage patterns with weather data to forecast bike rental demand in the Capital Bikeshare program in Washington, D.C

Bike Sharing Demand

This project is based on a Kaggle competition called Bike Sharing Demand.

Combining historical usage patterns with weather data to forecast bike rental demand in the Capital Bikeshare program in Washington, D.C

Bike sharing systems are a means of renting bicycles where the process of obtaining membership, rental, and bike return is automated via a network of kiosk locations throughout a city. Using these systems, people are able rent a bike from a one location and return it to a different place on an as-needed basis. Currently, there are over 500 bike-sharing programs around the world.

The data generated by these systems makes them attractive for researchers because the duration of travel, departure location, arrival location, and time elapsed is explicitly recorded. Bike sharing systems therefore function as a sensor network, which can be used for studying mobility in a city. In this competition, participants are asked to combine historical usage patterns with weather data in order to forecast bike rental demand in the Capital Bikeshare program in Washington, D.C.

Dataset Description

You are provided hourly rental data spanning two years. For this competition, the training set is comprised of the first 19 days of each month, while the test set is the 20th to the end of the month. You must predict the total count of bikes rented during each hour covered by the test set, using only information available prior to the rental period.

Data Fields

datetime - hourly date + timestamp

season - 1 = spring, 2 = summer, 3 = fall, 4 = winter

holiday - whether the day is considered a holiday

workingday - whether the day is neither a weekend nor holiday

weather - 1: Clear, Few clouds, Partly cloudy, Partly cloudy

2: Mist + Cloudy, Mist + Broken clouds, Mist + Few clouds, Mist

3: Light Snow, Light Rain + Thunderstorm + Scattered clouds, Light Rain + Scattered clouds

4: Heavy Rain + Ice Pallets + Thunderstorm + Mist, Snow + Fog

temp - temperature in Celsius

atemp - "feels like" temperature in Celsius

humidity - relative humidity

windspeed - wind speed

casual - number of non-registered user rentals initiated

registered - number of registered user rentals initiated

count - number of total rentals