Transportation
Mapping the Morning Rush Hour
In Nevada, you're likely to leave for work between midnight and 5 a.m.
I walk to work, bike to work, or take the metro depending on how many times I hit the snooze button. The time you decide to leave, or at least the time you should leave, obviously depends on the route you take to work and how you commute. Now, Nathan Lau of FlowingData has created a data viz that shows what time Americans stumble out their doors in every U.S. county.
In general, most people leave somewhere between 6 a.m. and 8:30 a.m, with activity really concentrated between 7 and 8 o'clock. Lau's data show that half of all workers in many Midwest counties leave during that period, so those portions of the map (below) are much darker in this hour.