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		jorgeortiz85 on Oct 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Foursquare dataset free to download and analyze I'm a Foursquare engineer. We have explanations of our API policies here: https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/community We'll be contacting this researcher to ask where they got this data and whether it conforms to our policies.

nicholassmith on Oct 8, 2013 [–]

Thanks for responding, I didn't realise Foursquare actually gave so much of their data away freely. Which makes it slightly more seedy someone has scraped the rest and dumped it online.

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