Spring break went so fast. I feel like to travel outside of the city, but  I couldn’t due to the workloads such as finishing the MA thesis and this project.  I am so impressed that all of the members moved forward. We also faced to technological obstacles. It was way too difficult to find geospatial data/ hash tags. Ironically, we couldn’t find New York Fashion Week images with NYC hash tags. It is unbelievable.

During the break, I uploaded few pictures on our Instagram account. I think it is difficult to increase the number of followers. Since it is an only semester length project, there are several limitations. The largest hurdle is that we are running out of time so we should skip certain steps. Obviously, we are not technological experts and not familiar with advertising industry. I guess there should be something attractive to interest common social media users. Basically, our Instgram account mainly displays our procedure how far we are at now. Even if I gave up increasing the followers, I made an alternative plan that I decided to include more hash tags related to programming e.g.) apigee, cartoDB, coding, html, bootstrap, etc…

After attaching more hash tags, certain type of users clicked more “Like” buttons compared to the ones with fewer hash tags. The highest number was 12 likes and the next highest one got 11 likes.