--- title: Where do locals go in NYC? | daily.dev description: A data analysis project using ~200,000 Foursquare check-ins in NYC to map which areas are dominated by locals versus tourists. Census areas are color-coded by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/where-do-locals-go-in-nyc--z91okdvxp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Where do locals go in NYC? | daily.dev og:description: A data analysis project using ~200,000 Foursquare check-ins in NYC to map which areas are dominated by locals versus tourists. Census areas are color-coded by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/where-do-locals-go-in-nyc--z91okdvxp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/z91OKdvxp.png og:image:alt: Where do locals go in NYC? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Where do locals go in NYC? **[Erik Bernhardsson](https://daily.dev/sources/erikbernhardsson)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A data analysis project using ~200,000 Foursquare check-ins in NYC to map which areas are dominated by locals versus tourists. Census areas are color-coded by local/tourist ratio, revealing that airports, Times Square, Central Park, and the Financial District attract the most tourists, while Lower Manhattan below 14th Street remains largely local. The analysis also distinguishes between NYC residents from other boroughs and out-of-town tourists, finding North Williamsburg is popular with non-local New Yorkers rather than tourists. Built with Python, GeoPandas, and Matplotlib. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I’m walking here\! 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