Geo-location services are the latest trend, and they present new opportunities for data mining as well as new privacy challenges. What is your experience with geolocation services [86 votes] | |
I have checked-in to Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowallah, or other geolocation services (20) | 24% |
Did not check-in yet, but plan to check-in this year (13) | 16% |
Did not check-in and no plans to check-in this year (51) | 61% |
Data Analysis | |
I have analyzed data from a geolocation service (15) | 18% |
Did not analyze geolocation data yet, but plan to do it this year (23) | 27% |
Did not analyze geolocation data and no plans to do it this year (44) | 52% |
Gregory Piatetsky, Editor: As results indicate, data miners are not rushing to use geo-location services. Slightly more respondents are planning to analyze the data than to actually use it themselves.