This document discusses building location-based social groups using Spark at InMobi. It begins with an overview of InMobi and their data collection through mobile ads. It then discusses using location data, point of interest classification, and connected components analysis in Spark to identify frequent co-visitations between locations and group them into location-based social graphs. Examples of identified groups include university students, business travelers at airports, and people who frequently visit stores and coffee shops near their work. The document concludes by noting InMobi's migration to using Spark for more of their data processing needs.
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