On neighborhood effects in location-based social networks

• Main Authors: DOAN, Thanh-Nam, CHUA, Freddy Chong-Tat, LIM, Ee-Peng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Social network services; Cities and towns; Predictive models; Information systems; Business; Global Positioning System; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3463; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4464/viewcontent/148___On_Neighborhood_Effects_in_Location_based_Social_Networks__WI_IAT2015_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we analyze factors that determine the check-in decisions of users on venues using a location-based social network dataset. Based on a Foursquare dataset constructed from Singapore-based users, we devise a stringent criteria to identify the actual home locations of a subset of users. U...