Visualizing the data city: social media as a source of knowledge for urban planning and management

摘要

Affordable smartphones featuring geolocation capabilities and social media applications generate a data stream associating people's interactions across space and time. The ability to mine this data for information provides us with a new way to think about urban planning and management. In their short book, published as part of the "SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology" series, the authors present how social media interactions, like Twitter comments, Pickles reviews, and Foursquare check-ins, can help researchers and urban planners to analyze the urban space. The coverage includes existing work that has been done in the field and the authors' own experiments.