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emodendroket on April 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Graph of Foursquare's Popularity After Removing Ch...

If I wanted that data, why would I pay instead of looking at it for free?

jedanbik on April 15, 2015 | [–]

I think because you'd want a stream of user info for your machine learning application.

DannoHung on April 15, 2015 | | [–]

No API, have to be logged in to view, then implement anti-scraping measures.

bandrami on April 15, 2015 | [–]

Because the data tree isn't available for free.

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