Due to the ongoing increase in daily mobility, reductions in border controls, and new trends
in tourism, it is important to find new ways to record comprehensively the growing number of …

The importance of data and evidence has increased considerably in policy planning,
implementation, and evaluation. There is unprecedented availability of open and big data …

Mobile phone data are an interesting new data source for official statistics. However,
multiple problems and uncertainties need to be solved before these data can inform, support …

Thanks to the use of geolocated big data in computational social science research, the
spatial and temporal heterogeneity of human activities is increasingly being revealed …

Cultural events are endorsed in urban cultural policy for their economic role in supporting
the tourism industry and their social role in strengthening community cohesion …

Quantification is a central instrument of tourism governance, as numbers are perceived as a
solid factual basis for action. However, critical studies of quantification reveal the political …

With the advent of social media, human dynamics studied in purely physical space have
been extended to that of a cyber and relational context. However, connections and …

The article uses passive mobile data to analyse the complex mobilities that occur in a
coastal region characterised by seasonal patterns of tourism activity. A large volume of data …

In this chapter, the authors develop one such quality assessment for home detection
methods from call detailed record (CDR) data. They argue that little research exists on the …

Ludzkość od zawsze zmaga się z problemami zdrowotnymi, wśród których choroby zakaźne
należą do najniebezpieczniejszych. W dziejach świata występowały zarówno epidemie, jak i …