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Evaluating the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games policy on the regeneration of East London using spatio-temporal big data
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas +1
For urban governments, introducing policies has long been adopted as a main approach to instigate regeneration processes, and to promote social mixing and vitality within the city.…
Discovering Latent Patterns of Urban Cultural Interactions in WeChat for Modern City Planning
Xiao Zhou, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascoloo +1
Cultural activity is an inherent aspect of urban life and the success of a modern city is largely determined by its capacity to offer generous cultural entertainment to its citizen…
Cultural Investment and Urban Socio-Economic Development: A Geo-Social Network Approach
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas +2
Being able to assess the impact of government-led investment onto socio-economic indicators in cities has long been an important target of urban planning. However, due to the lack…
Predicting the temporal activity patterns of new venues
Krittika D'Silva, Anastasios Noulas, Mirco Musolesi +2
Estimating revenue and business demand of a newly opened venue is paramount as these early stages often involve critical decisions such as first rounds of staffing and resource all…
A Multilayer Approach to Multiplexity and Link Prediction in Online Geo-Social Networks
Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas, Chloë Brown +2
Online social systems are multiplex in nature as multiple links may exist between the same two users across different social networks. In this work, we introduce a framework for st…
Topological Properties and Temporal Dynamics of Place Networks in Urban Environments
Anastasios Noulas, Blake Shaw, Renaud Lambiotte +1
Understanding the spatial networks formed by the trajectories of mobile users can be beneficial to applications ranging from epidemiology to local search. Despite the potential for…
OpenStreetCab: Exploiting Taxi Mobility Patterns in New York City to Reduce Commuter Costs
Vsevolod Salnikov, Renaud Lambiotte, Anastasios Noulas +1
The rise of Uber as the global alternative taxi operator has attracted a lot of interest recently. Aside from the media headlines which discuss the new phenomenon, e.g. on how it h…
Group colocation behavior in technological social networks
Chloë Brown, Neal Lathia, Anastasios Noulas +2
We analyze two large datasets from technological networks with location and social data: user location records from an online location-based social networking service, and anonymiz…
The Call of the Crowd: Event Participation in Location-based Social Services
Petko Georgiev, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo
Understanding the social and behavioral forces behind event participation is not only interesting from the viewpoint of social science, but also has important applications in the d…
Where Businesses Thrive: Predicting the Impact of the Olympic Games on Local Retailers through Location-based Services Data
Petko Georgiev, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo
The Olympic Games are an important sporting event with notable consequences for the general economic landscape of the host city. Traditional economic assessments focus on the aggre…
A place-focused model for social networks in cities
Chloë Brown, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo +1
The focused organization theory of social ties proposes that the structure of human social networks can be arranged around extra-network foci, which can include shared physical spa…
Geo-Spotting: Mining Online Location-based Services for Optimal Retail Store Placement
Dmytro Karamshuk, Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato +2
The problem of identifying the optimal location for a new retail store has been the focus of past research, especially in the field of land economy, due to its importance in the su…