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Map of the Day: The Digital Neighborhood
What Foursquare can teach us about how people use a city.
What can Foursquare tell us about the modern neighborhood? That's the question being asked by Livehoods, a new project from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The project maps 18 million check-ins to determine what places get visited by the same people. As the creators explain on the site, "if many of the same people check-in to two nearby locations, then these locations will likely be part of the same Livehood."
The site's founders explain their thinking behind the program: