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How Complex Is a Fractal? Head/tail Breaks and Fractional Hierarchy
Bin Jiang, Ding Ma
A fractal bears a complex structure that is reflected in a scaling hierarchy, indicating that there are far more small things than large ones. This scaling hierarchy can be effecti…
Big Data Is not just a New Type, but a New Paradigm
Bin Jiang
This paper is a first draft of the introduction to the special issue on volunteered geographic information published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (2015, 53, 1-122).…
Head/tail Breaks: A New Classification Scheme for Data with a Heavy-tailed Distribution
Bin Jiang
This paper introduces a new classification scheme - head/tail breaks - in order to find groupings or hierarchy for data with a heavy-tailed distribution. The heavy-tailed distribut…
Exploring Human Mobility Patterns Based on Location Information of US Flights
Bin Jiang, Tao Jia
A range of early studies have been conducted to illustrate human mobility patterns using different tracking data, such as dollar notes, cell phones and taxicabs. Here, we explore h…
Scaling of Geographic Space as a Universal Rule for Map Generalization
Bin Jiang, Xintao Liu, Tao Jia
Map generalization is a process of producing maps at different levels of detail by retaining essential properties of the underlying geographic space. In this paper, we explore how…
Measuring Urban Sprawl Based on Massive Street Nodes and the Novel Concept of Natural Cities
Tao Jia, Bin Jiang
In this paper, we develop a novel approach to measuring urban sprawl based on street nodes and naturally defined urban boundaries, both extracted from massive volunteered geographi…
Scaling of Geographic Space from the Perspective of City and Field Blocks and Using Volunteered Geographic Information
Bin Jiang, Xintao Liu
Scaling of geographic space refers to the fact that for a large geographic area its small constituents or units are much more common than the large ones. This paper develops a nove…
Zipf's Law for All the Natural Cities in the United States: A Geospatial Perspective
Bin Jiang, Tao Jia
This paper provides a new geospatial perspective on whether or not Zipf's law holds for all cities or for the largest cities in the United States using a massive dataset and its co…
Agent-based Simulation of Human Movement Shaped by the Underlying Street Structure
Bin Jiang, Tao Jia
Relying on random and purposive moving agents, we simulated human movement in large street networks. We found that aggregate flow, assigned to individual streets, is mainly shaped…
Characterizing Human Mobility Patterns in a Large Street Network
Bin Jiang, Junjun Yin, Sijian Zhao
Previous studies demonstrated empirically that human mobility exhibits Levy flight behaviour. However, our knowledge of the mechanisms governing this Levy flight behaviour remains…
Street Hierarchies: A Minority of Streets Account for a Majority of Traffic Flow
Bin Jiang
Urban streets are hierarchically organized in the sense that a majority of streets are trivial, while a minority of streets is vital. This hierarchy can be simply, but elegantly, c…
Street-based Topological Representations and Analyses for Predicting Traffic Flow in GIS
Bin Jiang, Chengke Liu
It is well received in the space syntax community that traffic flow is significantly correlated to a morphological property of streets, which are represented by axial lines, formin…
Ranking Spaces for Predicting Human Movement in an Urban Environment
Bin Jiang
A city can be topologically represented as a connectivity graph, consisting of nodes representing individual spaces and links if the corresponding spaces are intersected. It turns…