Computational socioeconomics

J Gao, YC Zhang, T Zhou - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …

Crowdsourced data mining for urban activity: Review of data sources, applications, and methods

H Niu, EA Silva - Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
The penetration of devices integrated with location-based services and internet services has
generated massive data about the everyday life of citizens and tracked their activities …

Extracting urban functional regions from points of interest and human activities on location‐based social networks

S Gao, K Janowicz, H Couclelis - Transactions in GIS, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Data about points of interest (POI) have been widely used in studying urban land use types
and for sensing human behavior. However, it is difficult to quantify the correct mix or the …

Check-in behaviour and spatio-temporal vibrancy: An exploratory analysis in Shenzhen, China

C Wu, X Ye, F Ren, Q Du - Cities, 2018 - Elsevier
Urban vibrancy describes the attraction, diversity and accessibility of a place and exhibits
spatio-temporal variability. The relationships between urban vibrancy and land-use …

Beyond Word2vec: An approach for urban functional region extraction and identification by combining Place2vec and POIs

W Zhai, X Bai, Y Shi, Y Han, ZR Peng, C Gu - Computers, environment and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The actual functions of a region may not reflect the intent of the original zoning scheme from
planners. To identify the actual urban functional regions, numerous methods have been …

Delineating urban functional areas with building-level social media data: A dynamic time warping (DTW) distance based k-medoids method

Y Chen, X Liu, X Li, X Liu, Y Yao, G Hu, X Xu… - Landscape and Urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel method for delineating urban functional areas based on
building-level social media data. Our method assumes that social media activities in …

Visualizing and exploring POI configurations of urban regions on POI-type semantic space

K Liu, L Yin, F Lu, N Mou - Cities, 2020 - Elsevier
POI configuration of a region indicates a combination of POI counts on various types inside
the region. Exploring POI configurations of urban regions facilitates to understand their …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping urban functional zones by integrating very high spatial resolution remote sensing imagery and points of interest: A case study of Xiamen, China

J Song, T Lin, X Li, AV Prishchepov - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Fine-scale, accurate intra-urban functional zones (urban land use) are important for
applications that rely on exploring urban dynamic and complexity. However, current …

[HTML][HTML] The combined use of remote sensing and social sensing data in fine-grained urban land use mapping: A case study in Beijing, China

Y Zhang, Q Li, H Huang, W Wu, X Du, H Wang - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
In light of the need for fine-grained, accurate, and timely urban land use information, a per-
field classification approach was proposed in this paper to automatically map fine-grained …

A framework for extracting urban functional regions based on multiprototype word embeddings using points-of-interest data

S Hu, Z He, L Wu, L Yin, Y Xu, H Cui - Computers, Environment and Urban …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many studies are in an effort to explore urban spatial structure, and urban functional regions
have become the subject of increasing attention among planners, engineers and public …