Seeing Cities Through Big Data : Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics /: Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah, Nebiyou Tilahun, Moira Zellner.
• Editors: Thakuriah, Piyushimita (Vonu); Tilahun, Nebiyou; Zellner, Moira
• Other Names: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
• Contents: Introduction to Seeing Cities Through Big Data – Research, Methods, and Applications in Urban Informatics -- Big Data and Urban Informatics: Innovations and Challenges to Urban Planning and Knowledge Discovery -- Analytics of user-generated content -- Using User-Generated Content to Understand Cities -- Developing an Interactive Mobile Volunteered Geographic Information Platform to Integrate Environmental Big Data and Citizen Science in Urban Management -- CyberGIS-enabled Urban Sensing from Volunteered Citizen Participation Using Mobile Devices -- Challenges and opportunities of urban Big Data -- The Potential for Big Data to Improve Neighborhood-Level Census Data -- Big Data and Survey Research: Supplement or Substitute? -- Big Spatio-temporal Network Data Analytics for Smart Cities: Research Needs -- A review of heteroscedasticity treatment with Gaussian Processes and Quantile Regression meta-models -- Changing organizational and educational perspectives with urban Big Data -- Urban Informatics: Critical Data and Technology Considerations -- Emerging Urban Digital Infomediaries and Civic Hacking in an Era of Big Data and Open Data Initiatives -- How Should Urban Planners Be Trained to Handle Big Data? -- Energy Planning in Big data Era: A Theme Study of the Residential Sector -- Urban data management -- Using an online spatial analytics workbench for understanding housing affordability in Sydney -- A Big Data Mashing Tool for Measuring Transit System Performance -- Developing a Comprehensive U.S. Transit Accessibility Database -- Seeing Chinese Cities through Big Data and Statistics -- Urban knowledge discovery applied to different urban contexts -- Planning for the Change: Mapping Sea Level Rise and Storm Inundation in Sherman Island Using 3Di Hydrodynamic Model and LiDAR -- The Impact of Land-Use Variables on Free-floating Carsharing Vehicle Rental Choice and Parking Duration -- Dynamic Agent Based Simulation of an Urban Disaster Using Synthetic Big Data -- Estimation of Urban Transport Accessibility at the Spatial Resolution of an Individual Traveler -- Modeling Taxi Demand and Supply in New York City Using Large-Scale Taxi GPS Data -- Detecting stop episodes from GPS trajectories with gaps -- Emergencies and Crisis -- Using Social Media and Satellite Data for Damage Assessment in Urban Areas During Emergencies -- Health and well-being -- ‘Big Data’: Pedestrian Volume Using Google Street View Images -- Learning from Outdoor Webcams: Surveillance of Physical Activity Across Environments -- Mapping Urban Soundscapes via Citygram -- Social equity and data democracy -- Big Data and Smart (Equitable) Cities -- Big Data, Small Apps: Premises and Products of the Civic Hackathon.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 307.76; Geography; Transportation; Data mining; Urban geography; Environmental geography; Social sciences; Geography; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Transportation; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Environmental Geography; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Cities and towns -- Data processing; Big data; Sociology, Urban -- Data processing; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban; Data mining; Environmental geography; Geography; Social sciences; Transportation; Urban geography; Technology & Engineering -- Power Resources -- General; Social Science -- Methodology; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Computers -- Database Management -- Data Mining; Power generation & distribution; Social research & statistics; Physical geography & topography; Data mining; Social sciences_xMethodology; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319409009; 3319409026; 9783319409023
• Related ISBNs: 331940900X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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