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.
A Brightkite (location-based social network) dataset of 58,228 users, 214,078 friendship edges, and 4.49M check-ins, collected by Cho et al. via Brightkite API (2008-2010). Each record contains undirected friendship edges, check-in records (timestamp, latitude, longitude, location_id). The dataset is notable for its location-based social network with rich spatiotemporal check-in data for mobility research. Intended for research into human mobility analysis, location-based social networks, friendship prediction, and urban computing.
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