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Location-based big data analytics for guessing the next Foursquare check-ins
Yan Zhuang1; Simon Fong1; Meng Yuan1; Yunsick Sung2; Kyungeun Cho3; Raymond K. Wong4
2016-12-01
Source PublicationJOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING
ISSN0920-8542
Volume73Issue:7Pages:3112-3127
Abstract

Location-based services on GPS-enabled smartphones are undergoing strong growth. Capitalizing on the popularity of this geo-location social media, a mobile app called Foursquare is developed to recommend its users places where they may be interested in, to travel from their current proximities. Such location data, in the form of check-ins by Foursquare, have huge business potentials including marketing, advertising and consumers' behaviors analysis. Many researchers from both academia and industries are seriously looking into this location-based big data which comes in high velocity (with millions of users and frequent geo-tagging), and wide variety (with potentially many meta-data and associations), accumulating into a huge volume. One of the fundamental analytics in such big data is to guess which check-in locations a user would move to, as a prerequisite for sequential mining and other lifestyle pattern analysis. This paper reports a novel, but simple big data analytic by sampling a portion of location data for predicting the next check-in locations. This proposed analytic does not need every individual user's history path and ID to match the history path of the current user in the database in order to infer a prediction. We show by a simulation experiment based on a Foursquare dataset that a minimum of two pairs of coordinates are required to provide a prediction. Several variables such as segment lengths, number of check-ins, and time factors are investigated in the experiment in relation to the prediction accuracy.

KeywordSequence Mining Next Location Prediction Foursquare
DOI10.1007/s11227-016-1925-2
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science ; Engineering
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS IDWOS:000405297000018
PublisherSPRINGER
The Source to ArticleWOS
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85000979398
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Corresponding AuthorSimon Fong
Affiliation1.Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Macau, China
2.Computer Engineering Division, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea
3.Department of Multimedia Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea
4.School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
Corresponding Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Yan Zhuang,Simon Fong,Meng Yuan,et al. Location-based big data analytics for guessing the next Foursquare check-ins[J]. JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING, 2016, 73(7), 3112-3127.
APA Yan Zhuang., Simon Fong., Meng Yuan., Yunsick Sung., Kyungeun Cho., & Raymond K. Wong (2016). Location-based big data analytics for guessing the next Foursquare check-ins. JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING, 73(7), 3112-3127.
MLA Yan Zhuang,et al."Location-based big data analytics for guessing the next Foursquare check-ins".JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING 73.7(2016):3112-3127.
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