Seeing Cities Through Big Data: Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction to Seeing Cities Through Big Data: Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics....Pages 1-9
Big Data and Urban Informatics: Innovations and Challenges to Urban Planning and Knowledge Discovery....Pages 11-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Using User-Generated Content to Understand Cities....Pages 49-64
Developing an Interactive Mobile Volunteered Geographic Information Platform to Integrate Environmental Big Data and Citizen Science in Urban Management....Pages 65-81
CyberGIS-Enabled Urban Sensing from Volunteered Citizen Participation Using Mobile Devices....Pages 83-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Potential for Big Data to Improve Neighborhood-Level Census Data....Pages 99-111
Big Data and Survey Research: Supplement or Substitute?....Pages 113-125
Big Spatio-Temporal Network Data Analytics for Smart Cities: Research Needs....Pages 127-140
A Review of Heteroscedasticity Treatment with Gaussian Processes and Quantile Regression Meta-models....Pages 141-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Urban Informatics: Critical Data and Technology Considerations....Pages 163-188
Digital Infomediaries and Civic Hacking in Emerging Urban Data Initiatives....Pages 189-207
How Should Urban Planners Be Trained to Handle Big Data?....Pages 209-217
Energy Planning in a Big Data Era: A Theme Study of the Residential Sector....Pages 219-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Using an Online Spatial Analytics Workbench for Understanding Housing Affordability in Sydney....Pages 233-255
A Big Data Mashing Tool for Measuring Transit System Performance....Pages 257-278
Developing a Comprehensive U.S. Transit Accessibility Database....Pages 279-290
Seeing Chinese Cities Through Big Data and Statistics....Pages 291-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Planning for the Change: Mapping Sea Level Rise and Storm Inundation in Sherman Island Using 3Di Hydrodynamic Model and LiDAR....Pages 313-329
The Impact of Land-Use Variables on Free-Floating Carsharing Vehicle Rental Choice and Parking Duration....Pages 331-347
Dynamic Agent Based Simulation of an Urban Disaster Using Synthetic Big Data....Pages 349-382
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Estimation of Urban Transport Accessibility at the Spatial Resolution of an Individual Traveler....Pages 383-404
Modeling Taxi Demand and Supply in New York City Using Large-Scale Taxi GPS Data....Pages 405-425
Detecting Stop Episodes from GPS Trajectories with Gaps....Pages 427-439
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Using Social Media and Satellite Data for Damage Assessment in Urban Areas During Emergencies....Pages 443-457
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‘Big Data’: Pedestrian Volume Using Google Street View Images....Pages 461-469
Learning from Outdoor Webcams: Surveillance of Physical Activity Across Environments....Pages 471-490
Mapping Urban Soundscapes via Citygram....Pages 491-513
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
Big Data and Smart (Equitable) Cities....Pages 517-542
Big Data, Small Apps: Premises and Products of the Civic Hackathon....Pages 543-559