NYC Flight Explorer

Andrew Martin
01-25-2016

A slide deck for the JHU Developing Data Products course.

What are the patterns of domestic flights from NYC?

  • Where do they fly, and how frequently?

  • How long are the flights?

  • How long are they delayed?

https://almartin.shinyapps.io/data-products/

A visualization of the `nycflights13` data

library(nycflights13)
library(magrittr)

flight_dim <- dim(flights)
num_dest <- flights$dest %>% table() %>% length()

cat(
  flight_dim[1], 'flight records from', 'to', num_dest, 'unique destinations.'
)

336776 flight records from to 105 unique destinations.

Cut the data by time of departure

See the flights on the map