The concept of a digital twin of Earth envisages the convergence of Big Earth Data with
physics-based models in an interactive computational framework that enables monitoring …

Great strides have been made in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) research over the
past half-century. However, this progress has created both opportunities and challenges …

The internet has become embedded into our daily lives, no longer an esoteric phenomenon,
but instead an unremarkable way of carrying out our interactions with one another. Online …

The emergence of big data brings new opportunities for us to understand our socioeconomic
environments. We use the term social sensing for such individual-level big geospatial data …

During the past few decades, technologies such as remote sensing, geographical
information systems, and global positioning systems have transformed the way the …

The context for geographic research has shifted from a data-scarce to a data-rich
environment, in which the most fundamental changes are not just the volume of data, but the …

Big data is increasingly seen as a way of providing a more 'scientific'approach to the
understanding and management of cities. But most geographic analyses of geotagged …

The generation and processing of data through digital technologies is an integral element of
contemporary society, as reflected in recent debates over online data privacy,'Big Data'and …

Big data is a revolutionary innovation that has allowed the development of many new
methods in scientific research. This new way of thinking has encouraged the pursuit of new …

This article investigates the metaphor of the Quantified Self (QS) as it is presented in the
magazine Wired (2008–2012). Four interrelated themes—transparency, optimization …