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GeoTopics - A method and system to explore urban activity

GeoTopics is a system to explore geographical patterns of urban activity. The system collects publicly shared check-ins generated by Foursquare users, that reveal who spends time where, when, and on what type of activity. Specifically, each venue in the data is associated with the following features: an exact location, a category (e.g., restaurant or museum), the set of users who have checked-in there, and the time (time of day and day of week) they checked-in. The method at the core of the system is a sparse probabilistic modeling technique to learn associations between different regions of a city and multi-feature descriptions of urban activity. As an example, one might discover that the south of a city is strongly associated with restaurants, bars, and night-clubs that are active in the evening, while the north of the city is associated with cafeterias and parks that are active in the morning of weekends.

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Additional Info
Field Value
Accessibility Both
AccessibilityMode Download
Area Urban Computing
Availability On-Line
Basic rights Distribution
CreationDate 2015-10-12
Creator Michael Mathioudakis, michael.mathioudakis@aalto.fi
Field/Scope of use Any use
Group Sustainable Cities for Citizens
Owner Mathioudakis, Michael, michael.mathioudakis@aalto.fi
ProgrammingLanguage Python; Javascript
Semantic Coverage people; cities
Sublicense rights No
Territory of use World Wide
Thematic Cluster Human Mobility Analytics [HMA]
UsageMode Download
system:type Method
Management Info
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Author Mathioudakis Michael
Maintainer Michael Mathioudakis
Version 1
Last Updated 8 September 2023, 12:05 (CEST)
Created 29 June 2018, 11:33 (CEST)