SunnyWanderer & Cassandra
Hey Cassandra, I’ve been thinking about how we could use data to spot hidden travel gems—like mapping off‑the‑beat beaches or tucked‑away markets. Got any ideas on how to start?
That’s a great project—start by gathering geo‑tagged photos from social media platforms, then run a clustering algorithm to find dense groups of images that are far from major tourist spots. From there, you can cross‑reference with local event listings or street‑level data to validate whether those clusters are actually hidden gems. If you need help setting up the pipeline, just let me know.
Sounds amazing! I can already picture the buzz of discovering a secret café or a cliffside spot that nobody knows about. Let me know what tech stack you’re using, and I’ll dive into the code to help set that pipeline up. Let’s uncover some magic together!
Sure thing—I’ll keep it lean and modular. For the core you’ll want Python as the language, with Pandas and GeoPandas for data handling, scikit‑learn for clustering, and a lightweight PostGIS database to store and query the geo‑features. Use the Pillow or OpenCV libraries if you need to process image metadata, and wrap everything in Docker for reproducibility. For visualizing the results, a simple Flask app that serves maps via Leaflet will let us interactively explore the clusters. That should give us a solid, reproducible pipeline. Let me know if you’d like a skeleton repo or more detail on any step.
That sounds solid! A quick skeleton would make it easy to get moving—just let me know if you’d like a starter repo with the folder layout, Dockerfile, a minimal Flask app and a Jupyter notebook that pulls in GeoPandas and scikit‑learn for clustering. If you want more detail on a particular step, like the clustering hyper‑parameters or how to pull metadata from Instagram, just give me the cue.