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:

Title: The Generation and Application of Large Scale Synthetic Populations for Disease Outbreaks and Disasters.

Achilleas Psyllidis and Hendra Hadhil Choiri:

Title: A Convolutional Neural Network-based Model for Predicting the Perceived Attractiveness of Urban Places

Jonathan Reades, Jordan de Souza and Elizabeth Sklar:

Title: Predicting Neighbourhood Change in London with Random Forests  

Nick Malleson, Tomas CrolsJonathan 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

Ed Manley:

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 JärvMaria Salonen, Rein Ahas and  Tuuli Toivonen:

Title: Dynamic cities: Spatial accessibility as a function of time.

Thomas Redfern, Nicolas MallesonGillian Harrison, Frances Hodgson, Alexis Comber and Susan Grant-Muller:

Title: Monitoring, modelling and understanding the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of air pollution exposure, transport policies, and health burdens. 

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 HeikinheimoOlle Järv and Tuomo Hiippala:

Title: Social media content for understanding the spatial patterns of urban leisure time 

Emmanouil Tranos:

Title: Doing internet archaeology to reveal the evolution of the digital economy in the UK.

Daniel Arribas-Bel:

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:

Title: Making Metrics Meaningful: A Discussion of Implementation and Reproducibility Using Measures of Migration

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.

Ellen Talbot:

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

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