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Leveraging Mobility Flows from Location Technology Platforms to Test Crime Pattern Theory in Large Cities
Cristina Kadar, Stefan Feuerriegel, Anastasios Noulas +1
Crime has been previously explained by social characteristics of the residential population and, as stipulated by crime pattern theory, might also be linked to human movements of n…
Exploiting Population Activity Dynamics to Predict Urban Epidemiological Incidence
Gergana Todorova, Anastasios Noulas
Ambulance services worldwide are of vital importance to population health. Timely responding to incidents by dispatching an ambulance vehicle to the location a call came from can o…
Modelling Metropolitan-area Ambulance Mobility under Blue Light Conditions
Marcus Poulton, Anastasios Noulas, David Weston +1
Actions taken immediately following a life-threatening personal health incident are critical for the survival of the sufferer. The timely arrival of specialist ambulance crew in pa…
Detecting Socio-Economic Impact of Cultural Investment Through Geo-Social Network Analysis
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas +1
Taking advantage of nearly 4 million transition records for three years in London from a popular location-based social network service, Foursquare, we study how to track the impact…
Developing and Deploying a Taxi Price Comparison Mobile App in the Wild: Insights and Challenges
Anastasios Noulas, Vsevolod Salnikov, Desislava Hristova +2
As modern transportation systems become more complex, there is need for mobile applications that allow travelers to navigate efficiently in cities. In taxi transport the recent pro…
Mining Open Datasets for Transparency in Taxi Transport in Metropolitan Environments
Anastasios Noulas, Vsevolod Salnikov, Renaud Lambiotte +1
Uber has recently been introducing novel practices in urban taxi transport. Journey prices can change dynamically in almost real time and also vary geographically from one area to…
#FoodPorn: Obesity Patterns in Culinary Interactions
Yelena Mejova, Hamed Haddadi, Anastasios Noulas +1
We present a large-scale analysis of Instagram pictures taken at 164,753 restaurants by millions of users. Motivated by the obesity epidemic in the United States, our aim is three-…
Hoodsquare: Modeling and Recommending Neighborhoods in Location-based Social Networks
Amy X. Zhang, Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato +1
Information garnered from activity on location-based social networks can be harnessed to characterize urban spaces and organize them into neighborhoods. In this work, we adopt a da…