Grown Up Thinking

This week, the Twitterverse has been buzzing about a new Foursquare visualization tool, Weeplaces. And with 100 million check-ins under their belt, it’s about time Foursquare found a way to visualize them.

How does it work? Blue circles represent places you have visited and even bigger circles with numbers represent places you visit frequently.  A time series chart below the map shows how long you have been a Foursquare user.  Once the animation begins to play, a yellow line connects all your check-ins and the timeline at the bottom follows along.

One of the best features of the visualization is the shaded regions, as places in the areas that you often frequent show up lighter than places you haven’t been.  This way you can see which neighborhoods you’ve been neglecting. @VishalSapra (shown above), for example, seems to have something against the Upper East Side.

All in all, I’m always looking for a new way to impress my friends with my check-in prowess. Thank you Movity for thinking of a way to reinvigorate my Foursquare addiction.

Tags: foursquare, mobile, Technology

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