Tag: social media
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Carlo Ratti from MIT Senseable City Lab talks in Heidelberg today
Professor Carlo Ratti, Director of the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US is giving a public presentation this evening in the context of the Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Heidelberg – Wissen schafft Stadt. He will present some of his works and ideas with respect to the senseable city and how this…
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Utilising social media data for transport planning and traffic management
Dr. Enrico Steiger (GIScience Heidelberg) will give a invited presentation about “Utilising social media data for transport planning and traffic management” on 4pm – 5:30pm, Thu, 23 Jun ’16 at Room CS101, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University UK Sustainable Cities Global Research Priority JOINT GRP / WISC SEMINAR The overall aim of the talk…
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Human Dynamics in the Mobile and Big Data Era
The Special Issue: Human Dynamics in the Mobile and Big Data Era of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), Volume 30, Issue 9 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online. This issue includes our article: Exploration of spatiotemporal and semantic clusters of Twitter data using unsupervised neural networks Enrico Steiger, Bernd…
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2nd Call for Papers: Link-VGI Workshop @ AGILE Helsinki in June; Deadline April 25th.
LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms Pre Conference Workshop at 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016. Helsinki, June 14th 2016 Deadline for Call for Short Paper (AGILE short paper format): April 25th 2016 The number of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms is continuously growing, providing…
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Enrico Steiger defends PhD on Explorative Spatial & Temporal Human Mobility Analysis from User-Generated Data
today Enrico Steiger successfully defended his PhD thesis about “Explorative Spatial and Temporal Human Mobility Analysis from User-Generated Data” at GIScience Heidelberg University. The massive amount of pervasive, user-generated data creates new possibilities to discover and utilize geographic information. Tied in with this novel role of actively participating users, is a growing research challenge where…
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Call for Paper: Special Issue on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Parallel to the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, volunteered geographic information (VGI) has emerged as a novel form of user-generated content, which involves both active forms of contribution such as online mapping or the explicit georeferencing of various media as well as the passive collection of data via the user’s location-enabled smartphone. Due to an…
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CrowdAnalyser Talk and Workshop on Big Data and Socioeconomic Analysis by Professor Paul Longley
By the end of November, Professor Paul Longley and his colleague Guy Lansley (both from Department of Geography, University College London) visited our group as part of the last CrowdAnalyser workshop. Both of them gave really inspiring talks. Paul talked about the provenance and use of big data (largely focussing on social media). Guy, in…
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Contributions to the European Handbook on Crowdsourced Geographic Information
The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University has contributed several chapters to the forthcoming “European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information”, edited by Capineri, C. et al. (eds.), Ubiquity Press. This includes the following chapters and papers that have been accepted for publication from different authors of the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg: – Research on social…
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New DFG Project on Data Integration from Location Based Social Networks
Recently a new project has been accepted to be funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). It deals with an agent-based and quality-aware integration of geo-social network data, thus investigating data integration as a collaborative negotiation process. Web-based social networks are now a significant social phenomenon. The user-generated data produced through them, including the location-based data,…
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Save the Date: 10. Modellierungstag “Open Data” Heidelberg
On Dezember 3rd 2015 the “10th Modelling Day” will take place in the “Print Media Academy” in Heidelberg. Start is at 14:00pm . From GIScience Heidelberg there will be two contributions: Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf will talk about “Herausforderungen und Potenziale offener Geodaten für räumliche Modellierungen in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft” and Benjamin Herfort gives a…
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Keynote at IEEE ‘Data Mining for Smart Cities’ Workshop
The First Workshop on Data Mining for Smart Cities (DMCities 2015) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) on 14 Nov 2015, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Prof. Alexander Zipf from GIScience Heidelberg will give an invited Keynote Speach on “Mapping the Urban Crowd – Mining…
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Twitter as an indicator for whereabouts of people? Correlating Twitter with UK census data
Detailed knowledge regarding the whereabouts of people and their social activities in urban areas with high spatial and temporal resolution is still widely unexplored. Thus, the spatiotemporal analysis of Location Based Social Networks (LBSN) has great potential regarding the ability to sense spatial processes and to gain knowledge about urban dynamics, especially with respect to…