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Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by racl101 »

semiprivate wrote: post #18

This is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.

Don't you mean click hipster and avoid?

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

#33

Post by wavesounds »

This is great! Anyone have information on the technology used? Specifically what they used for real time front end and data analysis. I also wonder if they could open it up for dynamic keywords.

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

#34

Post by natrius »

tracker1 wrote: post #23

And another one.. this one doesn't have Phoenix or San Antonio.. I mean there are a LOT of techie types in Phoenix and other cities in the top 10 excluded... it's not all "creative" most of the development here is more business oriented.. I just really get sick of these types of things not taking into account some of the largest cities in the country. I'm just getting really, really tired of living in the 6th largest…

I'm pretty sure Yelp has actual usage data that provides a better signal of which cities are worth the effort than population. Plus, trendy cities get talked about more than non-trendy ones by definition. More people care where hipsters hang out in Austin than where they hang out in Phoenix even though Austin is pretty small in the grand scheme of things.

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by SpeakMouthWords »

sadfaceunread wrote: post #29

Kinda interesting but I wonder if it is normalized at all for the yelp review density in a given area. See xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1138/ as I draw some unusual correlations in the Boston maps.

Either answer should give a valid measure of regional hipsterdom. Is it just hipsters that use Yelp? If so, go where they're reviewing. If not, follow the hipster tag. I can certainly vouch for the validity of the London version, that's for sure.

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

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Post by joonix »

semiprivate wrote: post #18

This is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.

Not many hotels in those areas of NYC.

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

#37

Post by foobarbazqux »

chetanahuja wrote: post #24
tracker1 wrote: post #23

And another one.. this one doesn't have Phoenix or San Antonio.. I mean there are a LOT of techie types in Phoenix and other cities in the top 10 excluded... it's not all "creative" most of the development here is more business oriented.. I just really get sick of these types of things not taking into account some of the largest cities in the country. I'm just getting really, really tired of living in the 6th largest…

The fact that you're unhappy about not being in a popularity list automatically disqualifies you from being a hipster :-)

This is pretty interesting. You might say that anybody who doesn't want the term hipster applied to them is a hipster. And everybody else is not a hipster. So then the best thing a hipster can do to lose their hipster status is to proclaim that they are indeed a hipster after all. How ironic...

Re: Yelp Hipster Finder

#38

Post by omd »

wavesounds wrote: post #33

This is great! Anyone have information on the technology used? Specifically what they used for real time front end and data analysis. I also wonder if they could open it up for dynamic keywords.

It looks to be the plain ole Google Maps API:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

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