Machine Learning

Switching to a Probabilistic Model for Venue Search in Foursquare

Our Pilgrim contextual location technology (used by Foursquare City Guide and Foursquare Swarm as well as by numerous other partners via Pilgrim SDK) involves:

• collecting data from our users’…

You Are (Probably) Here: Better Map Pins with DBSCAN & Random Forests

By Longfei Xing, Zengpan Fan and…

[Cross-posted from a Quora answer I wrote here.]

One of Foursquare’s most useful features is its ability to send you just the right notification at just the right time, whether it’s visiting a new restaurant, arriving in a city, or hanging out…

On Tuesday March 22nd @injust and @rathboma gave a talk at the NYC Machine Learning Meetup (a big thanks to Paul Dix for inviting us).