Using Data from Foursquare Web Service to Represent the Commercial Activity of a City

This paper aims to represent the commercial activity
of a city taking as source data the social network Foursquare. The
city of Murcia is selected as case study, and the location-based
social network Foursquare is the main source of information. After
carrying out a reorganisation of the user-generated data extracted
from Foursquare, it is possible to graphically display on a map the
various city spaces and venues especially those related to commercial,
food and entertainment sector businesses. The obtained visualisation
provides information about activity patterns in the city of Murcia
according to the people‘s interests and preferences and, moreover,
interesting facts about certain characteristics of the town itself.

• Taras Agryzkov
• Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda
• Jos´e L. Oliver
• Leticia Serrano-Estrada
• Leandro Tortosa
• Jos´e F. Vicent

• Social networks
• Foursquare
• spatial analysis
• data visualization
• geocomputation.

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