Urbanity: A system for interactive exploration of urban dynamics from streaming human sensing data

Mengxiong Liu, Zhengchao Liu, Chao Zhang, Keyang Zhang, Quan Yuan, Tim Hanratty, Jiawei Han

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Abstract

With the urbanization process worldwide, modeling the dynamics of people's activities in urban environments has become a crucial socioeconomic task. We present Urbanity, a novel system that leverages geo-tagged social media streams for modeling urban dynamics. Urbanity automatically discovers the spatial and temporal hotspots where people's activities concentrate; and captures the cross-modal correlations among location, time, and text by jointly mapping different units into the same latent space. With Urbanity, the end users are able to use flexible query schemes to retrieve different resources (e.g., POIs, hotspots, hours, activities) that meet their needs. Furthermore, Urbanity can handle continuous streams to update the learned model, thus revealing up-to-date patterns of urban activitiec 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCIKM 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages2503-2506
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450349185
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 6 2017
Event26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2017 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Nov 6 2017Nov 10 2017

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings
VolumePart F131841

Other

Other26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2017
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period11/6/1711/10/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Business, Management and Accounting
  • General Decision Sciences

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