Measuring urban deprivation from user generated content

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 254-264

  Venerandi, Alessandro ^a   Quattrone, Giovanni ^a   Capra, Licia ^a   Quercia, Daniele ^b   Saez Trumper, Diego ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical Methods; Foursquare; OpenStreetMap; Quantitative Analysis; Socio Economics; User Generated Content

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ECONOMICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

EMPIRICAL METHOD; FOURSQUARE; OPENSTREETMAP; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84968725225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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