The movielens datasets: History and context

FM Harper, JA Konstan - Acm transactions on interactive intelligent …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
The MovieLens datasets are widely used in education, research, and industry. They are
downloaded hundreds of thousands of times each year, reflecting their use in popular press …

Urban computing: concepts, methodologies, and applications

Y Zheng, L Capra, O Wolfson, H Yang - ACM Transactions on Intelligent …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Urbanization's rapid progress has modernized many people's lives but also engendered big
issues, such as traffic congestion, energy consumption, and pollution. Urban computing …

Avoiding the south side and the suburbs: The geography of mobile crowdsourcing markets

J Thebault-Spieker, LG Terveen, B Hecht - Proceedings of the 18th ACM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Mobile crowdsourcing markets (eg, Gigwalk and TaskRabbit) offer crowdworkers tasks
situated in the physical world (eg, checking street signs, running household errands). The …

Toward a geographic understanding of the sharing economy: Systemic biases in UberX and TaskRabbit

J Thebault-Spieker, L Terveen, B Hecht - ACM Transactions on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Despite the geographically situated nature of most sharing economy tasks, little attention
has been paid to the role that geography plays in the sharing economy. In this article, we …

Planning with crowdsourced data: rhetoric and representation in transportation planning

CA Le Dantec, M Asad, A Misra… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We are in the midst of a new era of experimentation that blends social and mobile computing
in support of digital democracy. These experiments will have potentially long lasting …

" Is it Weird to Still Be a Virgin" Anonymous, Locally Targeted Questions on Facebook Confession Boards

J Birnholtz, NAR Merola, A Paul - Proceedings of the 33rd annual ACM …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
People have long sought answers to questions online, typically using either anonymous or
pseudonymous forums or social network platforms that primarily use real names. Systems …

There's no such thing as the perfect map: Quantifying bias in spatial crowd-sourcing datasets

G Quattrone, L Capra, P De Meo - … of the 18th ACM conference on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Crowd-sourcing has become a popular form of computer mediated collaborative work and
OpenStreetMap represents one of the most successful crowd-sourcing systems, where the …

[PDF][PDF] Why do people volunteer? A review of the literature

R Bekkers, E van Ingen, A de Wit… - 45th ARNOVA Conference, 2016 - osf.io
Research on participation in third sector organizations and on volunteering in particular has
a long tradition in the social sciences. In this paper we give an overview of insights on what …

Lurking? Cyclopaths? A quantitative lifecycle analysis of user behavior in a geowiki

K Panciera, R Priedhorsky, T Erickson… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Online communities produce rich behavioral datasets, eg, Usenet news conversations,
Wikipedia edits, and Facebook friend networks. Analysis of such datasets yields important …

Volunteered geographic information production as a spatial process

D Hardy, J Frew, MF Goodchild - International Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit and a popular example of user-
generated content that includes volunteered geographic information (VGI). In this article, we …