Visiting a new city and not sure where to hang out at night? I show in this gallery, for 18 major cities around the world, the concentration of nightlife venues as heatmaps. Pink areas have the highest density of bars, while in the dark green and black zones there is really not much to do. I love how some cities have a well defined center for entertainment (that may or may not coincide with the geographic center of the city, or the areas with the highest population density… next thing to investigate!), while in some other ones nightlife is spread around in a polycentric pattern. Finally in Miami and Las Vegas drinking activities are arranged in a linear fashion along the Las Vegas Strip and Miami Beach

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The coordinates of venues have been obtained via the Yelp API, with the same procedure described in New York City Bars . I fetched businesses with the ‘nightlife’ category, that includes bars, pubs, dance clubs, jazz lounges and other establishments, as described here