LJ Metro Concentrations

[mcfnord]

I've collected about 57,000 cities from a city field found in LJ user foaf feeds. This field has its problems. It might be blank 90% of the time, people write mumbo jumbo in it, and people often write the same city's name more than one way. Still, it can sense large city names.

Comments

[borgseawolf]

So basically if I'm looking for people outside USA and Russia... I should look elsewhere? :P

[da_lj]

Take another look at the top four cities. One of them isn't in the US or Russia. :P

1783 | Moscow
346 | Seattle
205 | San+Francisco
202 | Toronto

For that matter, London plus Melbourne together would place at #3.

I'm curious what time-frame the foaf feeds call "active".

[klgrem]

Moscow is not in Russia?
Where did San Francisco go if it's not in the US?

[bitter_crimson]

Toronto is in Canada (not the U.S. or Russia), is what the above commenter was saying.

[klgrem]

Right. I misread his reply. Twice haha. I guess I need new bifocals. Thanks for pointing that out. Though I knew that, this time I read their reply right. ;)

[scearley]

I'd say Seattle is closer to being Canadian than Toronto is.

[sinnick]

You're from Vancouver originally, aren't you?

[glowing_dragon]

VANCOUVER REPRESENT!

[mcfnord]

Ha ha sly Canada!

You know, I have heard that Singapore is a major country for LJ... and I have seen clues of this... I was surprised when I couldn't find any cities there. Hmm.

I call active... it's a pragmatic definition but it should make sense... I sample LJ post count as frequently as every 60 days. So it's probably true that some time in the last 3 months or so, two samples at least 60 days apart detected the same post count. I do not trigger a review because I don't sense how old the old samples are... but I would say that contributes to accuracy, at the cost of some currency. I do walk a large LJ map pretty fast, however, and consider pulling a foaf sample (if the old one is older than 60 days) whenever i pull an fdata sample. all of this is limited by the fact that i really just started tracking data 3 months ago.

There are other problems with this (and some people's post count is lower, if they went on a post-killing spree), but it is a pretty good sensor of an inactive LJ, do you think?

[hammond]

Why would you put London and Melbourne together though?

[psychokitten76]

Because there is a Melbourne in England too.