Foursquare is a location-based service launched in 2009 whose users "checked in" at venues, built friend networks and left tips. Check-in data from it is widely used in mobility and recommendation research. Website ↗
A Foursquare dataset of 22,809,624 check-ins, 114,324 users, 3,820,891 venues, collected by Yang et al. via Foursquare API (2012–2014). Each record contains check-in timestamps, venue IDs, GPS coordinates, venue categories, friendship edges. One of the largest public Foursquare datasets with both check-in histories and social networks. Suitable for location-based social network analysis, user mobility, POI recommendation, community detection.
A Foursquare (location-based social network) dataset of 639,014 users and 3,214,986 friendship edges, collected by Fred Morstatter via Foursquare crawl (December 2010). Each record contains user-user friendship edges and user IDs. The dataset is notable for its friendship network from Foursquare, a pioneering location-based social network where users checked in at venues and shared locations with friends. Intended for research into social network analysis, community detection, location-based social network studies, and geographic mobility research.
