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When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

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Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

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Post by notahacker »

niekmaas wrote: post #39
ddkrone wrote: post #22

I like your idea but what are you going to do when a lot of people start visiting on the least busy days turning them into busy days? I know from personal experience that Wednesday afternoons between 1-4pm are usually the quietest times in movie theatres and other venues that tend to be packed on weekends so by putting this information in people's hands you're messing with my zen dude.

But since this system only incorporates data from the past few weeks the shift towards quite days will be detected pretty fast and thus these days will start to be visible as busy. It will balance itself out I think

Since only a small percentage of the UK population use Foursquare I'd be more inclined to be concerned it might head in the opposite direction (i.e. relatively small numbers of people using this site to identify quiet days to visit are substantially more likely to check in - resulting in more noise than signal)

Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

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Post by pkamb »

Usability Issues:

When I first went to the page, "Tate Modern" is the H1. The 'logo' at the top says "When should I visit Tate Modern?". That's great... except I have no idea what 'Tate Modern' is. Needs better separation of your general site/'pitch' from each individual attraction. Your homepage is currently taken over by some random museum, when I really want to search for the British Museum or whatever, and that's driving me away.

Similarly, that 'logo' link at the top has the attraction underlined. That makes me think it individually is a link, to the museum website, wikipedia page on it, etc. Instead, when I mouse over it the entire sentence turns in to a link back to your app's homepage... when I really wanted an outside link to the thing that was underlined. Don't inject the current page title into that logo, unless you're actually linking to it's official page or wikipedia or etc.

Re: When Should I Visit? - A 24 hour hack I made, what do you think?

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Post by sfphotoarts »

danw wrote: post #32
davnola wrote: post #29

Sir John Soane's museum. Quietest on Monday, because it's closed on Monday :) Spotted that immediately, but smart work anyway.

Whoops. I should integrate with http://opening-times.co.uk/ perhaps. Although places like the fantastic Soane and Geffrye seem to get very few Foursquare checkins even at the busiest of times

you're not measuring how busy a place is, but rather matching demographics between foursquare users and the various museums.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that foursquare check-in's is a very poor proxy for this kind of venue. For bars/clubs and coffee shops maybe, but you're measuring with the wrong stick. Having said that, it does seem to confirm common sense (that most places are busiest on the weekends and mid-week is quiet).

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