Investigating "locality" of intra-urban spatial interactions in New York City using foursquare data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Sun, Yeran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community detection; Complex network; Foursquare; Human mobility; Spatial interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962377270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi5040043     Document Type: Article

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