Not all trips are equal: Analyzing foursquare check-ins of trips and city visitors

• Main Authors: CHONG, Wen Haw, DAI, Bingtian, LIM, Ee Peng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Check-in; Foursquare; Long-term; Visitors; Short-term; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3104; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4104/viewcontent/Not_All_Trips_Equal_pv_oa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) such as Foursquare allow users to indicate venue visits via check-ins. This results in much fine grained context-rich data, useful for studying user mobility. In this work, we use check-ins to characterize trips and visitors to two cities, where visitors are def...