PredictionIO to Predict Demand

[jamesward]

Use an ML algorithm and previous ride events to predict demand.

[jamesward]

The data from the pipeline is going into PIO in this form:

{
    "event": "pickup",
    "entityId": "<A Random UUID>",
    "entityType" -> "location",
    "properties" -> {
        "lng": 1.23,
        "lat": 4.56
    },
    "eventTime" -> "<The Date & time of the pickup>"
}

Since right now our dataset is only NY we don't have to worry about using location. So really we just need to know when there was a pickup to predict demand.