Introduction

CitiBike, NYC's primary bikeshare provider, publishes their ridership data for each month (https://www.citibikenyc.com/system-data). The data includes the origins and destinations for each ride, the start and stop times, rider age and gender, and other related information.
I was interested in ride duration for CitiBike riders of different ages because I wanted to see if younger riders ride longer than older riders. My theory was that younger riders would ride longer based on a variety of possible reasons including: younger riders are in better physical shape and therefore are capable of longer rides; older people in NYC have more money to spend on transportation and are less incentivized to take cheaper transportation methods when more comfortables ones are available, especially during inclement weather.