Hex-binnified visualization layer over google maps
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sqlalchemy - storing user checkins, frienship data into Postgresql
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alembic - versioned database migrations
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tornado - webserver, used to establish websocket connection
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jQuery - DOM manipulation
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Google Maps Javascript API v3
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D3 Hexbin overlay layer
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websocket connection
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k-means ("where the party at?" :) )
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backbone.js
Dataset information (detail on license is provided in LICENSE)
Gowalla is a location-based social networking website where users share their locations by checking-in. The friendship network is undirected and was collected using their public API, and consists of 196,591 nodes and 950,327 edges. We have collected a total of 6,442,890 check-ins of these users over the period of Feb. 2009 - Oct. 2010.
Dataset statistics Nodes 196,591 Edges 950,327 Check-ins 6,442,890
Source (citation)
E. Cho, S. A. Myers, J. Leskovec. Friendship and Mobility: Friendship and Mobility: User Movement in Location-Based Social Networks ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2011.
Files
File Description loc-gowalla_edges.txt.gz Friendship network of Gowalla users loc-gowalla_totalCheckins.txt.gz Time and location information of check-ins made by users
Example of check-in information
[user] [check-in time] [latitude] [longitude] [location id]
196514 2010-07-24T13:45:06Z 53.3648119 -2.2723465833 145064
196514 2010-07-24T13:44:58Z 53.360511233 -2.276369017 1275991
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