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Yelp Hipster Finder
- snikolic 13y agoI appreciate how well this lines up with the PBR finder: http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/sf/pbr http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/sf/pbr
- iharris 13y agoTry the "sketchy" keyword... is that the infamous Tenderloin that I hear about? (I haven't been to SF before)
- jaredsohn 13y agoYes. (You could also verify this by zooming in. :))
- hammock 13y agoThe keyword sets seem to differ across the cities, can't find sketchy for my town.
- vmialik 13y agoMost cities have sketchy places, what is unique about Tenderloin, it has hole-in-the-wall restaurants that are actually quite good. So you go in to a place and might say in the review, this place looks sketchy, but the food is great. As apposed to purely sketchy place that you do not even want to go in to. So you do not go or leave a review. Another possibility are the massage parlors, which are truly sketchy. I learned that having the opportunity to sit in at the SF Coalition Against Human Trafficking which is a collaboration between the non profits and the government organizations in the city fighting the issue.
- JoshGlazebrook 13y agoWell it seems accurate for Seattle. Tourist is dark red all around the pike place market.
- RandallBrown 13y agoWith a nice little spot on the space needle too. And hipster covers the pike/pine/broadway area of capitol hill. It's very accurate.
- nieve 13y agoAnd don't forget the red blotch of shame where Ballard has been getting gentrified into the ground. Hipsters here have more overlap with yuppies than most places I've lived.
- jaredsohn 13y agoIt would be interesting to turn this into an API for use with looking at apartments/hotels, Google Now (and related), etc. as a warning system for people new to an area. (Thinking more in terms of the 'sketchy' warning than the 'hipster' warning here.)
- jpdevereaux 13y agohttp://www.trulia.com/local/#crimes/san-francisco-ca http://www.trulia.com/local/#crimes/san-francisco-ca
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- captainbenises 13y agoHow does this work - is it rendered server side or client side? Very cool! Reminds me of the 2d historgrams and contour maps you can generate with R.
- captainbenises 13y agoTo reply to myself, it looks like it's rendered client side - the json just returns a bunch of points and the heatmap must be canvas. See the json here: http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/wordmap/2/words/sf/dim-sum.js http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/wordmap/2/words/sf/dim-sum.j...
- czbond 13y agoYes - good client side JS to do this has only been around for a year or so. Before that it was ESRI, or map tile complexity...
- encoderer 13y agoI have no idea how Yelp has implemented this but I've done Heatmaps before. Basic process I built relied on caching map tiles. Pre-compute your raw data by lat/long. Build that into map tiles you overlay on the map by determining map area and converting lat/long to pixels on the tile. Load new tiles as the map is panned. Do it quickly if you want users to be happy. Cache everything.
- cag_ii 13y agoLikely using this: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/layers#JSHeatMaps https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
- czbond 13y agoThey're telling us the places to avoid ;) (The areas with high concentrations of Hipsters).
- shurcooL 13y agoWhat makes one want to avoid hipsters? Serious question because I don't really know.
- cb18 13y agoMy initial thoughts were to comment, This is really freaking cool, great idea whoever. But when I realized I couldn't put my own keywords in the url and zoom the map out and move it around I was somewhat less impressed, it's still a neat idea though. But, I think it would be 'really freaking cool' to do this while accessing the entire database of places and reviews with any keywords you want. I know that would require more development and server resources. It would probably be rather challenging to do this efficiently on the fly rather than using preprocessed data from a limited geographic range, I'm sure there is a yelp engineer or two that would like to take on the challenge though.
- Sealy 13y agoThat is a very cool feature. A great example of well applied Business Intelligence and data mining. Hackers take note, this is how you get value out of your growing datasets.
- EricMuller22 13y agoThis is a hilarious little hack. Neighborhood stereotypes seem to find themselves reinforced in Yelp reviews.
- jmspring 13y agoSurprisingly, the overlap between PBR and hipster isn't as great as I thought it would be. Though it is a bit closer in the east bay. Pity it doesn't go down the peninsula.
- semiprivate 13y agoThis is actually a good way to figure out where to stay when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid, click hipster and go there. Maybe go to the slightly less red areas for a more low key night. At least that's how you'd have fun if you were a 20-30 something in NYC.
- racl101 13y agoDon't you mean click hipster and avoid?
- joonix 13y agoNot many hotels in those areas of NYC.
- chobo 13y agonot as many as in midtown or uptown maybe but williamsburg and the LES have plenty of hotels nowadays.
- dwyer 13y ago> when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid So you're too good to be a tourist when you're a tourist? You sound like a hipster. > click hipster and go there Oh wait... But in all seriousness, if I go to Rome, I want to see The Colosseum. If I go to Amsterdam, I want to see the Van Gogh Museum. Not being a tourist somewhere means having already seen what the tourists there are just seeing for the first time. Would you really prefer to go everywhere and never see anything at all? I'm not going to NYC just to see hipsters. I can see that at home.
- soup10 13y agoFisherman's wharf is no colosseum. Golden gates worth a look though. Overall sf city culture is the main tourist attraction of sf, so it makes sense to seek that out. I was pretty unimpressed by sf until seeing some of the massive displays of humanity its fond of putting on.
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- hmsimha 13y agoAm I seeing things or does it look just a little bit like the PBR heat map puts a bird on Portland? http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/portland/pbr http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/portland/pbr
- callmeed 13y agoHaha, a little bit ... For those that don't know the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XM3vWJmpfo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XM3vWJmpfo
- tracker1 13y agoAnd another one.. this one doesn't have Phoenix or San Antonio.. I mean there are a LOT of techie types in Phoenix and other cities in the top 10 excluded... it's not all "creative" most of the development here is more business oriented.. I just really get sick of these types of things not taking into account some of the largest cities in the country. I'm just getting really, really tired of living in the 6th largest city in the US, not even including the very large suburbs, and always being excluded from these kinds of things.
- chetanahuja 13y agoThe fact that you're unhappy about not being in a popularity list automatically disqualifies you from being a hipster :-)
- foobarbazqux 13y agoThis is pretty interesting. You might say that anybody who doesn't want the term hipster applied to them is a hipster. And everybody else is not a hipster. So then the best thing a hipster can do to lose their hipster status is to proclaim that they are indeed a hipster after all. How ironic...
- Iterated 13y agoDoesn't have the DFW either. I really feel like the country wouldn't even know San Antonio existed if it wasn't for the Spurs and the Alamo. It doesn't seem like a place people find desirable to move to it seems.
- michaelwww 13y ago> It doesn't seem like a place people find desirable to move to it seems. I've been through a few times. There's litter everywhere. It's trashy. San Antonio does not make a good impression. Strange because Lady Bird Johnson started her beautify America (crying native chief) from Texas.
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- kapilkale 13y agoThis is one of the best SEO pieces I've seen all year.
- hnriot 13y agoHow is this SEO?
- kapilkale 13y agoIt's high quality content that people want to share. Some of those people will inevitably share it on their blogs, with links pointing at the site. As a result, Yelp's pagerank improves and they stay ahead of their competition for things like "best restaurants in San Francisco". A ton (I'd guess 80%+) of Yelp's traffic comes from Google / Bing search. Maintaining / growing that traffic is probably a substantial driver of their decisions.
- michaelt 13y agoSo, is all high quality content people link to "SEO"?
- James_Duval 13y agoDepends on the intention. I think in this case, as Yelp have admitted in the past they are dependent on Google/organic search traffic, it is likely that this content is intended to function as SEO as well as (and due to the fact that it is) something cool. With a company with more of a business-to-business angle, it might have been more ambiguous, but in this case it seems likely that SEO is part or all of the motivation.
- lmm 13y agoSufficiently advanced SEO is indistinguishable from good content. http://xkcd.com/810/ http://xkcd.com/810/
- eksith 13y agoThat map is alarmingly accurate. And people say meta-data is no big deal.
- sadfaceunread 13y agoKinda interesting but I wonder if it is normalized at all for the yelp review density in a given area. See xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1138/ http://xkcd.com/1138/ as I draw some unusual correlations in the Boston maps.
- SpeakMouthWords 13y agoEither answer should give a valid measure of regional hipsterdom. Is it just hipsters that use Yelp? If so, go where they're reviewing. If not, follow the hipster tag. I can certainly vouch for the validity of the London version, that's for sure.
- flogic 13y agoStrangely enough "hipster" doesn't quite line up with heat maps for other words in SF, NYC, and Philly.
- apendleton 13y agoHaha, both my office and home neighborhoods have red blobs over them (for "hipster" in DC). Excellent.
- ryanSrich 13y agoFuckin' H street man.
- austinl 13y agoLiving in Logan Square, I can attest to this http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/chicago/hipster http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/chicago/hipster
- tathagatadg 13y agotrue that :) ... wicker park is awesome too!
- wavesounds 13y agoThis is great! Anyone have information on the technology used? Specifically what they used for real time front end and data analysis. I also wonder if they could open it up for dynamic keywords.
- omd 13y agoIt looks to be the plain ole Google Maps API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/layer-heatmap https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
- tzury 13y agoFor NYC, I would expect the Lower east side to be the hit http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/nyc/hipster http://www.yelp.com/wordmap/nyc/hipster
- mathattack 13y agoIndeed. Even New Jersey gets some love. Brookyln too. No hipsters on the upper east or west though.
- w1ntermute 13y ago> Brookyln too. Brooklyn (more specifically, Williamsburg) is the center of NYC hipster culture.
- wittysense 13y agoYelp does not like Tor.
- dwyer 13y agoYelp is very aggressive against crawlers. They IP banned me for curl'ing their site a few times for something or another that their API didn't provide. I had to email them and promise never to do it again. I'd imagine it has provoked some to attempt to crawl them via Tor. I just use the Open Table API instead.
- wittysense 13y ago! Cheers to the tip.
- gourneau 13y agoI am surprised the map for 'hipster' and 'pbr' is not almost identical.
- kinofcain 13y agoIndeed. My guess is that people who are using the word "hipster" in a review are using it pejoratively to describe a place that they think hipsters would frequent, whereas the actual hipsters who are mapping out sources of PBR have long since moved on to places that aren't cool yet.
- pinchyfingers 13y agoPlenty of tortillas in Austin.
- basicallydan 13y agoIn London, "cheap" and "pricey" tend to stay around the same sort of area. http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/cheap http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/cheap http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/pricey http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/pricey Well, shit. This is awesome though. Nice one, Yelp :)
- dtf 13y agoSoho pretty much is both at once. Expensive cocktail bars next to old men's pubs, fancy restaurants next to fish & chip shops, exclusive members' clubs next to dirty downstairs speakeasies.
- walshemj 13y agoAnd full of people who say its not the same since "Jeff" died - I had a pint in the coach and horses in Soho and the barman actually "apologised" for me having to wait while he changed the barrel - I felt short changed :-)
- epynonymous 13y agoawesome, now i know the places to avoid when i'm in san francisco! if this was nyc, you'd see williamsburg with big solid red dots.
- liquidcool 13y agoAm I missing something? For LA, it's telling me that the hipster areas are Silver Lake, WeHo, Venice, etc. Well, duh. As the Dothraki would say, "It is known." Why doesn't it actually show the individual establishments adding heat to the map? I realize I could just search for it on their site, but I don't know if the measure of relevance would be the same. I'm really curious what's causing all that bacon heat.
- Aardwolf 13y agoThe map refuses to zoom out more than a small bit. Is that some kind of in-joke about hipsters being only in that area?
- vilius 13y agoHipster Bermuda Triangle in London http://cl.ly/image/303A3s1R0E22 http://cl.ly/image/303A3s1R0E22
- tathagatadg 13y agosome days back i posted a question on quora asking which is the most hipster neighborhood of chicago. i must admit the map concurs with the humans: http://www.quora.com/Chicago-1/Which-are-the-most-hipster-neighborhoods-of-Chicago http://www.quora.com/Chicago-1/Which-are-the-most-hipster-ne...
- ctrager 13y agoHere's something similar I recently created. http://ifdefined.com/hack_week.html http://ifdefined.com/hack_week.html It uses a collection of keywords that you choose and then uses Nokia's HERE.com APIs to create a heatmap. The fun is coming up with the keywords. "Vegetarian" and "yoga" work pretty well for finding hipster places in the US, but for India not so much. Instead I tried "coffee", "pub", "pizza". "Sushi" works internationally except you-know-where.
- ctrager 13y agoAlso, for tourists versus locals, this is fantastic, using geocoded tweets. It confirms what I tell out-of-town visitors to Chicago: Locals don't go to Navy Pier. http://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/locals/#13/41.9007/-87.6005 http://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/locals/#13/41.9007/-...
- mugdho 13y agoI couldn't find the scale in the maps are they the same, as SF seems to be more hipster-y then Portland, which I didn't think was possible.