4 papers
The pulse of the city through Twitter: relationships between land use and spatiotemporal demographics
Juan Carlos Garcia-Palomares, Maria Henar Salas-Olmedo, Borja Moya-Gomez +2
Social network data offer interesting opportunities in urban studies. In this study, we used Twitter data to analyse city dynamics over the course of the day. Users of this social…
Tourists' digital footprint in cities: comparing big data sources
Maria Henar Salas-Olmedo, Juan Carlos Garcia-Palomares, Javier Gutierrez
There is little knowledge available on the spatial behaviour of urban tourists, and yet tourists generate an enormous quantity of data (Big Data) when they visit cities. These data…
Dynamic accessibility using Big Data: The role of the changing conditions of network congestion and destination attractiveness
Borja Moya-Gómez, María Henar Salas-Olmedo, Juan Carlos García-Palomares +1
This paper analyses urban accessibility using a fully dynamic approach.
Airbnb in tourist cities: comparing spatial patterns of hotels and peer-to-peer accommodation
Javier Gutierrez, Juan Carlos Garcia-Palomares, Gustavo Romanillos +1
In recent years, what has become known as collaborative consumption has undergone rapid expansion through peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms. In the field of tourism, a particularly nota…