Research Article

POI Recommendation Method Using Deep Learning in Location-Based Social Networks

Table 1

Basic statistics of check-in dataset.

FoursquareGowalla

Number of users247510839
Number of points of interest580325172
Number of check-in205317599675
Average number of points of interest per user46.7530.96
Average number of visitors per POI17.8913.14
Data sparsity99.19%99.89%