Foursquare Visualization

This project explores the behaviour of Foursquare users in NYC by looking at check-ins from New York City. See it live here: http://woojink.github.io/foursquare-visualization/

• To do: Add interactive highlight links in the write-up

Dataset

The dataset is courtesy of Dingqi Yang. It includes 227,428 Foursquare check-ins from the NYC area from 12 April 2012 to 16 February 2013.

• Dingqi Yang, Daqing Zhang, Vincent W. Zheng, Zhiyong Yu. Modeling User Activity Preference by Leveraging User Spatial Temporal Characteristics in LBSNs. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, (TSMC), 45(1), 129-142, 2015. [PDF]

Credits

This project was created by Woojin Kim, Arushi Arora, and Azam Alfayez for the Storytelling with Data course at Columbia University.

We would like to thank Jonathan Soma for the amazing tutorials and, most of all, a fantastic course.