Sunday, April 26, 2015

FiveThirtyEight's Interactive Flight Map Shows Flight Time Added Based Off of the Airport and Airline You Use

FiveThirtyEight created an interactive map that allows users to discover which airports and airlines add the most time to their flight based off of their destination airport. Users can choose which airport they are leaving from and which one they are flying to. After this happens, the user is shown the target flight time (how much time the flight should take), the amount of time added by the airports, and then finally, the typical flight time (how much time the flight usually takes). The visual shown is a bar from one airport to the other on the map, with a different color bar depending on the average travel time of each flight. I think this is an interesting way of letting people know about travel times and which airports and airlines are the fastest. However, I don't think the visual representation of the map adds much to the data itself. It does show the general speed of the route performance (slow, regular, or quick), but I think it would be better if some of the numbers were on the map as well. In addition, the "Extra time added by airlines" visual seems a bit complicated to me and could probably be more simplified.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/flights/

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