Foursquare check-ins

In order to visualize the working activity in different cities of the world, we made use of Foursquare check-ins for an 18th month period between 2012 and 2013. Due to the large amount of data, we kept the check-ins for only a certain number of countries. The final count of check-ins was:

Brazil: 156759 | US: 131250 | UK: 14821 | Singapore: 6020 | Australia: 4295 | South Africa: 3031

Businesses in London

The business data for London was derived from the Companies House and provided information about active businesses up until 2017. The businesses were organized into 9 categories based on their SIC code:

• Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing • Mining • Construction • Manufacturing • Transportation & Public Utilities

• Wholesale Trade - Retail Trade • Finance Insurance, Real Estate • Services

Transportation activity in London

The data transportation for London was derived from TFL and consists of the count of oyster card tap-outs with 15-minute intervals for a random weekday in November 2017. For the purpose of our study, data was aggregated and converted an into hourly format.