Scaling of City Attractiveness for Foreign Visitors through Big Data of Human Economical and Social Media Activity

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Congress on Big Data, BigData Congress 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 600-607

  Sobolevsky, Stanislav ^a   Bojic, Iva ^a   Belyi, Alexander ^a   Sitko, Izabela ^c   Hawelka, Bartosz ^c   Arias, Juan Murillo ^b   Ratti, Carlo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BBVA University Institute for Economic and Social Analysis University of Alcalá   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

bank cards; discrete choice model; Flickr; human mobility; superlinear scaling; Twitter; urban attraction

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; POPULATION STATISTICS; SCALING LAWS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BANK CARDS; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; FLICKR; HUMAN MOBILITY; SUPERLINEAR; TWITTER; URBAN ATTRACTION;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84959565042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BigDataCongress.2015.92     Document Type: Conference Paper

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