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It asks candidates to use a dataset of taxi trips—with fields such as fare, locations, times, and distance—to propose a solution that helps drivers and could ship within one week. ## Question details - **Role:** [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://www.aced.io/questions?role=forward-deployed-engineer) - **Company:** [Palantir](https://www.aced.io/questions?company=palantir) - **Category:** [Decomposition](https://www.aced.io/questions?type=decomposition) - **Last asked:** 7 months ago - **Community answers:** No answers have been contributed by the community yet. Detailed company statistics for this question are available through [Upgrade](https://www.aced.io/upgrade?src=questions). 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