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Tracking Urban Activity Growth Globally with Big Location Data
Matthew Daggitt, Anastasios Noulas, Blake Shaw +1
In recent decades the world has experienced rates of urban growth unparalleled in any other period of history and this growth is shaping the environment in which an increasing prop…
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…
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-…
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…