Foursquare maps venues within a 95% confidence interval using check-in data
Jeff Glueck · Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Mar 24, 2017 · at 6:08
Jeff Glueck, CEO of Foursquare, explains at Data Driven NYC how Foursquare uses machine learning and user check-in data to solve complex micro-location mapping problems in places like shopping malls.
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“Over time you build a data set over billions of check-ins, you know the shape of every place, and you know the 95% confidence interval in terms of lat-long where someone is.”
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