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20152024
most citedShared urbanism: Big data on accommodation sharing in urban Australia

7 citations · 17 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.soc-ph2024

From Urban Clusters to Megaregions: Mapping Australia's Evolving Urban Regions

M. K. M Ng, Z. Shabrina, S. Sarkar +2

This study employs percolation theory to investigate the hierarchical organisation of Australian urban centres through the connectivity of their road networks. The analysis demonst…

physics.soc-ph2019

Evidence for localization and urbanization economies in urban scaling

Somwrita Sarkar, Elsa Arcaute, Erez Hatna +3

We study the scaling of (i) numbers of workers and aggregate incomes by occupational categories against city size, and (ii) total incomes against numbers of workers in different oc…

cs.CY2017★ 7 cited

Shared urbanism: Big data on accommodation sharing in urban Australia

Somwrita Sarkar, Nicole Gurran

As affordability pressures and tight rental markets in global cities mount, online shared accommodation sites proliferate. Home sharing arrangements present dilemmas for planning t…

econ.GN2016★ 1 cited

Inferring the contiguity matrix for spatial autoregressive analysis with applications to house price prediction

Somwrita Sarkar, Sanjay Chawla

Inference methods in traditional statistics, machine learning and data mining assume that data is generated from an independent and identically distributed (iid) process. Spatial d…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 6 cited

Eigenvector dynamics under perturbation of modular networks

Somwrita Sarkar, Sanjay Chawla, Peter A. Robinson +1

Rotation dynamics of eigenvectors of modular network adjacency matrices under random perturbations are presented. In the presence of communities, the number of eigenvectors cor…

physics.soc-ph2015

The scaling of income inequality in cities

Somwrita Sarkar, Peter Phibbs, Roderick Simpson +1

Developing a scientific understanding of cities in a fast urbanizing world is essential for planning sustainable urban systems. Recently, it was shown that income and wealth creati…