Am i infer that half-way between wednesday and thursday (midnight) that the check-in rate for restaurants is half way between the two (~450)?
Silly choice of graph type.
User-mining: Start at the gym, end up at a bar?
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#22Am i infer that half-way between wednesday and thursday (midnight) that the check-in rate for restaurants is half way between the two (~450)? Silly choice of graph type.
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#23Updated graph on gym usage by hour: http://simplyryan.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/gymhour.png
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#24Nice work.
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#25I'm amazed so few people are at the parks in the mornings. I always thought that they were crammed with people walking their animals, exercising, etc... from around 5:30 to 8:00 am. I guess people there like to sleep in.
I think this shows the skewed distribution of geolocation users, as compared to the population. I can't find the link right now, but there was a story posted recently about a survey finding less then 10% of the population had ever heard of geolocation services such as foursquare.
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#26Has any study been done about the likelihood of people to check-in with one of these social apps? If someone checks-in at the gym on Monday, are they going to be less likely to check in again on Tuesday?
People I know seem to check-in when they are subtly bragging about what they're doing, so is it likely they'll check-in at a non-trendy restaurant on a Tuesday evening?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're making a critical logical mistake - assuming a data anomaly when you don't know anything about the field, but you take a 5-second check with your own intuition, and can't find an explanation. You've never heard "Thursday's the new Friday"? College kids and young employeds party hearty on Thursdays now. It started in the early 2000's. Uncle Google shows that even the NYT knows about it: http://www.google.com/se…
This started in the City as far back as the 80s - everyone wanted to leave work early on Friday and go away for the weekend with their partners/families/whatever. So Thursday was the night for getting drunk with your cow-orkers. Casual Fridays comes from this time too.
Also in NYC, Friday and Saturday nights are when restaurants are clogged with tourists, so locals try to avoid going out on those nights.
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#28Updated graph on gym usage by hour: http://simplyryan.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/gymhour.png
Which is why I make it a point to go to the gym in the morning or at lunch if I sleep in. Absurdly over packed after everyone gets off work.