Tag: geosocial media
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New paper on the integration of geographic information into survey research
We recently published a new paper on the integration of geographic information into survey research. The paper is the outcome of a collaborative effort with colleagues from the Leibnitz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) in Mannheim and from the University of Salzburg (Z_GIS) and it provides an overview of how the consideration of geographic…
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Wisdom of the Crowd from LBSN: PhD Defence of Ming Li
Last Thursday our GIScience HD team member Ming Li successfully defended her PhD. The thesis is entitled “Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd from Location-based Social Networks: Theoretical Potentials and Practical Applications”. Thanks to the technical advancements, the mobile users all over the world are collaborating in the location-based social networks (LBSNs) to create a…
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2nd Call for full Journal and Workshop Papers on VGI_Analytics (AGILE2017) Deadline March 15
VGI-Analytics 2017 is the 4th workshop in a series of AGILE pre-conference workshops Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media data have become part of our everyday lives over the past few years. Whereas in the early beginnings of crowd-sourced data the collection occurred primarily to isolated, individual platforms, contribution patterns are now beginning to be…
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Invitiation: Colloquium Talk by Dr. Wei Huang on Modelling Intra-urban Human Activity Patterns
We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk in the GIScience colloquium next Monday, January 09, about modelling human activity patterns in cities using crowdsourcing and geosocial media data. Dr. Wei Huang presents a novel approach which considers motivation for human activities and makes it possible to take activity change into account. Modelling Intra-urban Human…