Trending on Foursquare: Examining the Location and Categories of Venues that Trend in Three Cities
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This study examines categorical and spatial patterns for trending venues in three cities. The three cities in our experiment are New York City, NY, Pittsburgh, PA and Erie, PA. We examine common categories of venues that trend in our test cities and see a similar theme in each city favoring foodbased venues, nightlife venues and other venues. We map the venues in each city and perform a nearest neighbor analysis to identify any spatial clustering in the datasets. We find that trending venues in New York City and Pittsburgh exhibit clustering while the trending venues in Erie are more dispersed.
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