Top Stories published by Foursquare in 2013

Quattroshapes: A Global Polygon Gazetteer from Foursquare

Foursquare geographic infrastructure relies on numerous pieces of open geo software: PostGIS, GDAL, Shapely, Fiona, QGIS, S2, and JTS as well as open geographic data: OSM, geonames.org, US Census’ TIGER, Canada’s geogratis…


Machine learning at Foursquare

In March, I spoke at Queens Open Tech about machine learning at Foursquare. The talk gives a nice overview of the kinds of insights we have about human behavior from check-in data and our machine-learning setup. Learn how we used smarter algorithms to get 20,000 people to…


The Opportunity Gap: learn about the public schools in your neighborhood with @ProPublica and Foursquare

As our recent hackathon showed, there are tons of ways that developers can use Foursquare to power amazing apps — from ones that shame you into going to…