Innovations in Urban Analytics @ the AAG
Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research: Innovations in Urban Analytics Sessions
As part of the Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research we have organized 5 sessions around Innovations in Urban Analytics. These sessions will take place on Thursday 12th of April from 8am to 7pm in the Bayside A, Sheraton, 4th Floor.
Description
New forms of data about people and cities, often termed ‘Big’, are fostering research that is disrupting many traditional fields. This is true in geography, and especially in those more technical branches of the discipline such as computational geography / geocomputation, spatial analytics and statistics, geographical data science, etc. These new forms of micro-level data have lead to new methodological approaches in order to better understand how urban systems behave. Increasingly, these approaches and data are being used to ask questions about how cities can be made more sustainable and efficient in the future.
These sessions will bring together the latest research in urban analytics. In particular the papers will engage in the following domains:
- Agent-based modelling (ABM) and individual-based modelling;
- Machine learning for urban analytics;
- Innovations in consumer data analytics for understanding urban systems;
- Real-time model calibration and data assimilation;
- Spatio-temporal data analysis;
- New data, case studies, demonstrators, and tools for the study of urban systems;
- Complex systems analysis;
- Geographic data mining and visualisation;
- Frequentist and Bayesian approaches to modelling cities.
Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research: Innovations in Urban Analytics I – Agent-Based Modelling and Machine Learning
Time: 8:00 AM
Location: Bayside A, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Chair: Nick Malleson.
Andrew Crooks, Annetta Burger, Xiaoyi Yuan and William Kennedy:
Achilleas Psyllidis and Hendra Hadhil Choiri:
Jonathan Reades, Jordan de Souza and Elizabeth Sklar:
Title: Predicting Neighbourhood Change in London with Random Forests
Nick Malleson, Tomas Crols, Jonathan Ward and Andrew Evans:
Title: Forecasting Short-Term Urban Dynamics: Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Modelling
Tomas Crols and Nick Malleson:
Title: Calibrating an Agent-Based Model of the Ambient Population using Big Data
Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research: Innovations in Urban Analytics II – Transport and Accessibility
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Bayside A, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Chair: Andrew Crooks
Title: Analysing Cities through Cognitive Models of Geographic Space.
Alison Heppenstall, Yuanxuan Yang and Alexis Comber:
Title: Who, why and when? Using smart card and social media data to reveal flows through urban spaces.
Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Jasper Wijnands, Gideon Aschwanden and Mark Stevenson:
Title: The Paris end of town? Urban typology through machine learning.
Henrikki Tenkanen, Olle Järv, Maria Salonen, Rein Ahas and Tuuli Toivonen:
Title: Dynamic cities: Spatial accessibility as a function of time.
Thomas Redfern, Nicolas Malleson, Gillian Harrison, Frances Hodgson, Alexis Comber and Susan Grant-Muller:
Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research: Innovations in Urban Analytics III – Data Synergies and Emerging Insights
Time: 1:20 PM
Location: Bayside A, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Chair: Alison Heppenstall
Tuuli Toivonen, Henrikki Tenkanen, Vuokko Heikinheimo, Olle Järv and Tuomo Hiippala:
Title: Social media content for understanding the spatial patterns of urban leisure time
Title: Doing internet archaeology to reveal the evolution of the digital economy in the UK.
Title: “Nowcasting” house prices at high spatiotemporal resolution.
Nik Lomax and Andrew Smith:
Title: High resolution demographic projections for infrastructure planning.
Discussant: Alison Heppenstall
Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research: Innovations in Urban Analytics IV
Time: 3:20 PM
Location: Bayside A, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Chair: Ed Manley.
Boyana Buyuklieva and Adam Dennett:
Marina Toger, Ian Shuttleworth and John Östh:
Title: How average is average? Temporal patterns and variability in mobile phone data.
Alec Davies, Mark Green and Alex Singleton
Title: Using new forms of data to investigate self-medication.
Title: Estimating Energy Consumption Through Smart Meter and Socio-demographic Datasets.
Discussant Ed Manley.
Symposium on New Horizons in Human Dynamics Research: Innovations in Urban Analytics V: Panel Session
Time: 5:20 PM
Location: Bayside A, Sheraton, 4th Floor
New forms of data about people and cities, often termed ‘Big’, are fostering research that is disrupting many traditional fields. This is true in geography, and especially in those more technical branches of the discipline such as computational geography / geocomputation, spatial analytics and statistics, geographical data science, etc. These new forms of micro-level data have lead to new methodological approaches in order to better understand how urban systems behave. Increasingly, these approaches and data are being used to ask questions about how cities can be made more sustainable and efficient in the future.
This panel session concludes the ‘Innovations in Urban Analytics’ paper theme.
Panelists:
Alex Singleton, Andrew Crooks, Boyana Buyuklieva, Tuuli Toivonen and Moira Zellner
Session Sponsors:
- Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group.
- Spatial Analysis and Modeling Specialty Group
- Urban Geography Specialty Group.
Organizers:
- Andrew Crooks, George Mason University.
- Alison Heppenstall, University of Leeds.
- Nick Malleson, University of Leeds.
- Ed Manley, University College London.
- Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool.
- Tuuli Toivonen, University of Helsinki.