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Context-Conditioned Generative Models Enable Subnational Refinement of Sparse Humanitarian Surveys
Federica Sibilla, Vasiliki Voukelatou, Duccio Piovani +4
Data scarcity limits inference in many scientific and policy domains. Survey data are essential for decision-making, but sparse samples often fail to capture fine spatial granulari…
Vitamin N: Benefits of Different Forms of Public Greenery for Urban Health
Sanja Šćepanović, Sagar Joglekar, Stephen Law +4
Urban greenery is often linked to better health, yet findings from past research have been inconsistent. One reason is that official greenery metrics measure the amount or nearness…
The Experience of Running: Recommending Routes Using Sensory Mapping in Urban Environments
Katrin Hänsel, Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia +4
Depending on the route, runners may experience frustration, freedom, or fulfilment. However, finding routes that are conducive to the psychological experience of running remains an…
Continental-scale assessment of spatial food market accessibility in Africa using open geospatial data
Robert Benassai-Dalmau, Vasiliki Voukelatou, Rossano Schifanella +3
Food market accessibility is a critical yet underexplored dimension of food systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In this paper, we present a continent-wide as…
Protein pathways as a catalyst to directed evolution of the topology of artificial neural networks
Oscar Lao, Konstantinos Zacharopoulos, Apostolos Fournaris +2
In the present article, we propose a paradigm shift on evolving Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) towards a new bio-inspired design that is grounded on the structural properties, i…
Resilience of mobility network to dynamic population response across COVID-19 interventions: evidences from Chile
Pasquale Casaburi, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Nicolò Gozzi +6
The COVID19 pandemic highlighted the importance of non-traditional data sources, such as mobile phone data, to inform effective public health interventions and monitor adherence to…
On the need to move from a single indicator to a multi-dimensional framework to measure accessibility to urban green
Alice Battiston, Rossano Schifanella
With the recent expansion of urban greening interventions, the definition of spatial indicators to measure the provision of urban greenery has become of pivotal importance in infor…
Modeling Teams Performance Using Deep Representational Learning on Graphs
Francesco Carli, Pietro Foini, Nicolò Gozzi +2
The large majority of human activities require collaborations within and across formal or informal teams. Our understanding of how the collaborative efforts spent by teams relate t…
Revealing the determinants of gender inequality in urban cycling with large-scale data
Alice Battiston, Ludovico Napoli, Paolo Bajardi +4
Cycling is an outdoor activity with massive health benefits, and an effective solution towards sustainable urban transport. Despite these benefits and the recent rising popularity…
A Large Scale Study of Reader Interactions with Images on Wikipedia
Daniele Rama, Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi +1
Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add…
Patterns of Routes of Administration and Drug Tampering for Nonmedical Opioid Consumption: Data Mining and Content Analysis of Reddit Discussions
Duilio Balsamo, Paolo Bajardi, Alberto Salomone +1
The complex unfolding of the US opioid epidemic in the last 20 years has been the subject of a large body of medical and pharmacological research, and it has sparked a multidiscipl…
Mobile Recognition of Wikipedia Featured Sites using Deep Learning and Crowd-sourced Imagery
Jimin Tan, Anastasios Noulas, Diego Sáez +1
Rendering Wikipedia content through mobile and augmented reality mediums can enable new forms of interaction in urban-focused user communities facilitating learning, communication…
Large-scale and high-resolution analysis of food purchases and health outcomes
Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella, Daniele Quercia +1
To complement traditional dietary surveys, which are costly and of limited scale, researchers have resorted to digital data to infer the impact of eating habits on people's health.…
Multimodal Social Media Analysis for Gang Violence Prevention
Philipp Blandfort, Desmond Patton, William R. Frey +9
Gang violence is a severe issue in major cities across the U.S. and recent studies [Patton et al. 2017] have found evidence of social media communications that can be linked to suc…
Understanding News Outlets' Audience-Targeting Patterns
Erick Elejalde, Leo Ferres, Rossano Schifanella
The power of the press to shape the informational landscape of a population is unparalleled, even now in the era of democratic access to all information outlets. However, it is kno…
Beautiful and damned. Combined effect of content quality and social ties on user engagement
Luca M. Aiello, Rossano Schifanella, Miriam Redi +3
User participation in online communities is driven by the intertwinement of the social network structure with the crowd-generated content that flows along its links. These aspects…
Detecting Sarcasm in Multimodal Social Platforms
Rossano Schifanella, Paloma de Juan, Joel Tetreault +1
Sarcasm is a peculiar form of sentiment expression, where the surface sentiment differs from the implied sentiment. The detection of sarcasm in social media platforms has been appl…
The Emotional and Chromatic Layers of Urban Smells
Daniele Quercia, Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella
People are able to detect up to 1 trillion odors. Yet, city planning is concerned only with a few bad odors, mainly because odors are currently captured only through complaints mad…
Chatty Maps: Constructing sound maps of urban areas from social media data
Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella, Daniele Quercia +1
Urban sound has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Yet, city planning is concerned mainly with noise, simply because annoying sounds come to the attention of city offici…
Smelly Maps: The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes
Daniele Quercia, Rossano Schifanella, Luca Maria Aiello +1
Smell has a huge influence over how we perceive places. Despite its importance, smell has been crucially overlooked by urban planners and scientists alike, not least because it is…
An Image is Worth More than a Thousand Favorites: Surfacing the Hidden Beauty of Flickr Pictures
Rossano Schifanella, Miriam Redi, Luca Aiello
The dynamics of attention in social media tend to obey power laws. Attention concentrates on a relatively small number of popular items and neglecting the vast majority of content…
The Digital Life of Walkable Streets
Daniele Quercia, Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella +1
Walkability has many health, environmental, and economic benefits. That is why web and mobile services have been offering ways of computing walkability scores of individual street…
6 Seconds of Sound and Vision: Creativity in Micro-Videos
Miriam Redi, Neil O Hare, Rossano Schifanella +2
The notion of creativity, as opposed to related concepts such as beauty or interestingness, has not been studied from the perspective of automatic analysis of multimedia content. M…
People are Strange when you're a Stranger: Impact and Influence of Bots on Social Networks
Luca Maria Aiello, Martina Deplano, Rossano Schifanella +1
Bots are, for many Web and social media users, the source of many dangerous attacks or the carrier of unwanted messages, such as spam. Nevertheless, crawlers and software agents ar…