NYC Taxi rides

Recently I dusted off some prior work on analyzing NYC yellow cab rides which I described in the following blog post: Timelapse data exploration of NYC Taxi rides A large chunk of time in setting up the solution from that post sits in loading the data into HANA using the Eclipse “Data from local file” import screen.

Back in 2014 the city of New York put online a dataset with yellow cab rides comprising a full year of data. Back then I remember struggling quite a bit with managing the sheer volume of the dataset involved, trying out various alternatives for reading in the full dataset.