LIVEHOOD

Defining the extent of a suburb is a tricky endeavour indeed - how does one draw a line in the sand; limiting the extent of a community?! Traditionally we think in terms of real-estate, but isn't it the behaviours' of the people within a particular area that really define it? Well, thats what Livehoods reckons anyway... they have applied a clustering algorithm to the 18 million 'check-ins' collected from the location-based social network foursquare