Big data has now become a strong focus of global interest that is increasingly attracting the
attention of academia, industry, government and other organizations. Big data can be …

The future of humanity depends increasingly on the performance of cities. Big data provide
new and powerful ways of studying and improving coupled urban environmental, social, and …

Although Italian cities have undergone several waves of touristification, concerns about
overtourism have only recently become widespread. In the article, we suggest that the …

The growing ubiquity of location/activity sensing technologies and location-based services
(LBS) has led to a large volume and variety of location-based big data (LocBigData), such …

The purpose of this research is to investigate the status and the evolution of the scientific
studies for the effect of social networks on big data and usage of big data for modeling the …

As the world struggles with several compounded challenges caused by the COVID-19
pandemic in the health, economic, and social domains, timely access to disaggregated …

A proper understanding of urban functions is fundamental to prevent urban problems and
promote better built environments. While previous studies focus mainly on inferring urban …

Recreational activities are heterogeneously distributed throughout urban space, with far
more low-density areas than high-density ones. Identification of recreational hotspots, or …

Geospatial analysis is very much dominated by a Gaussian way of thinking, which assumes
that things in the world can be characterized by a well-defined mean, ie, things are more or …

Modern Chinese cities are defined from the administrative view and classified into several
administrative categories, which makes it inconsistent between Chinese cities and their …