User-mining: Start at the gym, end up at a bar? July 27, 2010 By Ryan Waliany By

Today, I spent all day “Hacking with Cloudera on CDH3” at the Cloudera Hackathon understanding people’s location-based activities using Yelp, Foursquare, and Twitter. By analyzing the data algorithmically, I got strikingly similar results to those shown on Going.com, which are based on user-generated and hand-moderated content. I was able to retrieve more data regarding users’ whereabouts each day, even hour. Here are my results: