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Yelp Hipster Finder
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#42This 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.
> when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid
So you're too good to be a tourist when you're a tourist? You sound like a hipster.
> click hipster and go there
Oh wait...
But in all seriousness, if I go to Rome, I want to see The Colosseum. If I go to Amsterdam, I want to see the Van Gogh Museum. Not being a tourist somewhere means having already seen what the tourists there are just seeing for the first time. Would you really prefer to go everywhere and never see anything at all? I'm not going to NYC just to see hipsters. I can see that at home.
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#43It would be interesting to turn this into an API for use with looking at apartments/hotels, Google Now (and related), etc. as a warning system for people new to an area. (Thinking more in terms of the 'sketchy' warning than the 'hipster' warning here.)
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#44For NYC, I would expect the Lower east side to be the hit http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/nyc/hipster
Indeed. Even New Jersey gets some love. Brookyln too. No hipsters on the upper east or west though.
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#45Yelp does not like Tor.
Yelp is very aggressive against crawlers. They IP banned me for curl'ing their site a few times for something or another that their API didn't provide. I had to email them and promise never to do it again. I'd imagine it has provoked some to attempt to crawl them via Tor. I just use the Open Table API instead.
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#46This 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.
> when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid So you're too good to be a tourist when you're a tourist? You sound like a hipster. > click hipster and go there Oh wait... But in all seriousness, if I go to Rome, I want to see The Colosseum. If I go to Amsterdam, I want to see the Van Gogh Museum. Not being a tourist somewhere means having already seen what the tourists there are just seeing for the first time. Would…
Fisherman's wharf is no colosseum. Golden gates worth a look though.
Overall sf city culture is the main tourist attraction of sf, so it makes sense to seek that out. I was pretty unimpressed by sf until seeing some of the massive displays of humanity its fond of putting on.
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#47For NYC, I would expect the Lower east side to be the hit http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/nyc/hipster
Indeed. Even New Jersey gets some love. Brookyln too. No hipsters on the upper east or west though.
> Brookyln too.
Brooklyn (more specifically, Williamsburg) is the center of NYC hipster culture.
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#48Kinda 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.
Strangely enough "hipster" doesn't quite line up with heat maps for other words in SF, NYC, and Philly.
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#49Haha, both my office and home neighborhoods have red blobs over them (for "hipster" in DC). Excellent.
Fuckin' H street man.
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#50Well it seems accurate for Seattle. Tourist is dark red all around the pike place market.
With a nice little spot on the space needle too. And hipster covers the pike/pine/broadway area of capitol hill. It's very accurate.
And don't forget the red blotch of shame where Ballard has been getting gentrified into the ground. Hipsters here have more overlap with yuppies than most places I've lived.