imclab / social_map

Visualizing social check-in data

Visualization of social checkins

Hex-binnified visualization layer over google maps

Built using

Python

• sqlalchemy - storing user checkins, frienship data into Postgresql

• alembic - versioned database migrations

• tornado - webserver, used to establish websocket connection

Javascript

• jQuery - DOM manipulation

• Google Maps Javascript API v3

• D3 Hexbin overlay layer

• websocket connection

WIP

• k-means ("where the party at?" :) )

• backbone.js

Gowalla dataset structure

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

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Jeehyung Lee

Use it for good license. I'm providing this source as it. If you would like to use the ideas and source to better the world, you are free to take and use this however you see fit.

Gowalla data provided by Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection

SNAP is distributed under the BSD license. This means that it is free for both academic and commercial use. Note however that some third party components in SNAP require that you reference certain works in scientific publications.

You are free build your code on top of SNAP. If do so, please reference (cite) SNAP and this website. We appreciate bug fixes and would be happy to include new modules in SNAP.

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