Machine Learning on Social Media Data - Livehoods.org

Livehoods.org is very interesting site that combines social media data along with data/visual analytics. It's no surprise that this data can have extremely meaningful information, especially in an age where social media is now such an integral part of our society. Go check out their use of machine learning algorithms to analyze the massive amount of location-aware check-in data.

According to their website - "Livehoods offer a new way to conceptualize the dynamics, structure, and character of a city by analyzing the social media its residents generate. By looking at people's checkin patterns at places across the city, we create a mapping of the different dynamic areas that comprise it. Each Livehood tells a different story of the people and places that shape it."