How I Hacked Uber’s Hidden API to Download 4379 Rides

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Seaborn

Below are the key insights. If you want to see the Python code I used to do this analysis and generate the charts using Seaborn, you can find my full analysis Jupyter notebook on my Github repo here: Tip Analysis.ipynb.

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Pandas

As with any web scraping or data processing project, I had to write a fair amount of code to clean this up and shape it into a format I needed for further analysis. I used a combination of Pandas and regular expressions to clean it up (full code here).

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Uber Driver API

However, when I looked at the Drivers API on their site, I got the rude message that the API was “limited” and I had to apply for access. Seriously?! There must be another way.

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