This Blog Post is in response to the Assignment #3 which can be found here or here . The Livehoods Project: Utilizing Social Media to Understand the Dynamics of a City 1. What patterns are used by the authors to define a livehood cluster? Authors define Livehood clusters based on “… the spatial proximity between venues as given by their geographic coordinates, as well as the social proximity” derived “… from the distribution of people that check-in to them.” The authors use Foursquare check-ins by users in the targeted area to analyse and define Livehood clusters. The authors used only the Foursquare check-ins that were publicly disclosed by users on Twitter to collect the data, use Cluster mapping to define Clusters of user behavior which determined the borders of Livehoods within city municipal borders. For each check-in, authors documented the user ID, the time, the latitude and longitude, the name of the venue, and the category of the place. The