Abstract:
Citibike, a company that provides public bikes across NYC has made their data publicly available. One question this paper tries to answer with this data is whether there is a difference in the length of the trip duration of male and female riders. A t-test is used to compare the two groups and the results show that there is no difference between how long rides are based on gender.
Introduction:
Citibike, is a private company that provides a public bike share service in parts of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. with hundreds of docking stations around the areas. Every month a dataset is released that contains information about citibike usage. One question to be answered from this dataset is if there is a difference between how long men and women use citi -ike. This result would be significant because it could identify if the use cases based on gender are different. 
  
Data:
The dataset used was the most recent data available for August 2017. Each row represents a trip taken on a citibike. One column contains the gender and another contains the tripduration. There were a few trips that were extremely long and outliers in the data. In order to view the results of the most common trips the data was trimmed by 10%. Based on gender Figure 1 shows the distribution of the tripduration. It can be observed that both distributions look very similar for male and female.