Mining urban deprivation from foursquare: Implicit crowdsourcing of city land use

IEEE Pervasive Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 30-36

  Quercia, Daniele ^a   Saez, Diego ^b  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

mobile computing; pervasive computing; urban informatics

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; MOBILE COMPUTING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; CITIZEN SCIENCE; IMPLICIT CROWDSOURCING; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; URBAN INFORMATICS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84901407091     PISSN: 15361268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2014.31     Document Type: Article

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