Dublin City CouncilCreative Commons Attribution 4.0Data covers 2020
· dataset listing last updated 2026-09-22T08:33:45.696631
Nearly all Moby bikes in Dublin were classified as general-use, but one in six location readings fell outside normal geographic bounds
Why this matters
Dockless bike-share services like Moby now operate alongside traditional station-based schemes in Dublin, relying on GPS location data to manage their fleets. Erratic location readings can signal technical problems, bikes being moved or dumped outside permitted areas, or data quality issues that affect operators' ability to rebalance bikes and Dublin City Council's ability to enforce licensing requirements.
The 'DUB-General' bike type accounted for 94% of all recorded bike observations (18,826 of 20,000), with only small fractions classified as 'Workshop' or 'Private' use
Despite this operational dominance, 15.1% of longitude values (3,017 of 20,000) were statistical outliers, suggesting location-tracking errors or bikes positioned well outside the expected service area
Battery levels for general-use bikes totalled 1,236,612 across all observations, 96% higher than the 51,213 recorded for workshop bikes, reflecting the much larger active fleet
Average battery charge remained stable across the five-day period at around 67%, peaking at 67.66% on 3 October 2020
'DUB-General' accounts for 94% of all BikeTypeName values (18826 of 20000).View underlying data
Category
Value
DUB-General
18826
Workshop
939
Private
235
By total Battery, 'DUB-General' leads all BikeTypeName categories with 1236612.0, 96% ahead of runner-up 'Workshop' (51213.0).View underlying data
Category
Value
DUB-General
1236612.0
Workshop
51213.0
Private
17883.0
3017 of 20000 Longitude values (15.1%) are statistical outliers (outside 1.5× IQR).View underlying data
Statistic
Value
min
-6.363
median
-6.259
max
0.0
count
20000
A caveat worth knowing: This sample covers only five days in early October 2020 and reflects 20,000 observations from a pool of 94 unique bikes; location outliers may indicate GPS errors, legitimate out-of-area trips, or data quality issues flagged in the publisher's disclaimer about historical files
API endpoint used: https://data.smartdublin.ie/dataset/177e32de-cb85-4c1c-bb12-7188c6c49aa1/resource/13acc44c-7827-4742-8145-fdb32648548c/download/moby-bikes-historical-data-102020.csv
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Selected automatically — interestingness score 65/100
(has a time dimension, multiple numeric fields, and/or a categorical breakdown;
see the project's scoring method for details).
Published 2026-10-18T14:18:42.990614+00:00.
Generated automatically by Ireland Open Data Analyst — every quantitative claim above
was checked against a computed value before publishing.