A visual exploration of Foursquare checkins

Interesting project by Foursquare, showcasing the last three months of checkins, using their big data to create a mashup on top of a Mapbox map.

Foursquare, 3 months of checkins

Of the SoLoMo team, Location hasn’t really gone mainstream unlike Social and Mobile. Privacy concerns not withstanding, when you get aggregate data like this, i start to wonder if we could use this location data for urban planning. Of course brands are only interested on traffic and consumption patterns, but there’s still a lot to explore once we get to learn on how to live in public and share our data for good purposes.

One thought on “A visual exploration of Foursquare checkins

  1. Alfonsino says:

    Olá Armando! Ótimo blog! Sempre com informação muito interessante e actual

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