I'm curious where the "samples" of location records came from. Does "relevance" now encompass "we need to run a software test"?
@normative No. But they do appear to do some significant poking pre-analysis, whether that's necessary or not.
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@emptywheel Right, so, you could start with a few known retail businesses or pizza places or whatever and develop a fingerprint...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@emptywheel And then program the system to recognize that fingerprint and ignore when it's chaining so you're not cluttering your graph -
@normative Yup. And that is probably how they do it. Of course, if, as in the Marathon case, a pizza place is central, you're fucked.
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@emptywheel …and then do spot checks to make sure the numbers its excluding are, in fact, pizza places and call centers.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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