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Recommending interesting events in real-time with foursquare check-ins

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ABSTRACT

Foursquare is a location-based social application that helps users explore the world around them and share their experiences with friends. When foursquare users visit places, they ``check in" using their mobile phones, indicating they are at that place. People check in for a variety of reasons: to keep up with friends, get tips about places, redeem rewards, and keep track of their personal history. In aggregate, billions of these check-ins reveal distinct patterns about when places are popular and allow us to build a unique place recommendation engine which can identify and recommend interesting events in real-time based on statistical deviations from past historical trends.

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    RecSys '12: Proceedings of the sixth ACM conference on Recommender systems
    September 2012
    376 pages
    ISBN:9781450312707
    DOI:10.1145/2365952

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