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]
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I have checked-in to Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowallah, or other geolocation services (20) |
24% |
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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.
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