Big Data for Regional Science (Hardcover)

Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Foreword by Michael Batty 1. Introduction Laurie A. Schintler and Zhenhua Chen PART I New Big Data Source in Regional Science 2. Opportunities for Retail Data and Their Geographic Integration in Social Science Guy Lansley and Paul Longley 3. Use of Probe Data Generated by Taxis Josep Maria Salanova, Michal Maciejewski, Joschka Bischoff, Miquel Estrada Romeu, Panagiotis Tzenos, and Iraklis Stamos 4. The Emerging Geography of Globalizing Chinese Cities Based on Web-based Information Services Jean-Claude Thill, Jae Soen Son, and Min Chen 5. Using Web Crawled Data for Urban Housing Research Zhenhua Chen 6. Examining Intraurban Migration in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area using Parcel Data Shipeng Sun 7. Crowdsourcing Street Beauty: Visual Preference Surveys in the Big Data Era Robert Goodspeed and Xiang Yan 8. Public Response to Campus Shootings Using Social Media Xinyue Ye, Zhuo Chen, and Shengwen Li PART II Big Data Integration and Management 9. Using Big (Synthetic) Data to Identify Local Housing Market Attributes A.Yair Grinberger and Daniel Felsenstein 10. Using Recurrent Spatio-Temporal Profiles in GPS Panel Data for Enhancing Imputation of Activity Type Tao Feng and Harry J.P. Timmermans 11. Processing Uncertain GPS Trajectory Data for Assessing the Locations of Physical Activity Sungsoon Hwang, Sai Yalla, and Ryan Crews 12. Exploring Digital Technology Industry Clusters Using Administrative and Frontier Data Max Nathan and Anna Rosso 13. The Integration of Internet Data and Census Data for Spatial Analysis in a Geoportal Bing She, Hua Li and Shuming Bao 14. Big Data, Socio-Environmental Resilience, and Urban Systems Planning Support Brian Deal, Aaron Petri, Haozhi Pan, and Stephanie Timm 15. Big Data Perspectives: Adoption of a Regional Environmental Information System Andrea De Montis, Sabrina Lai, Nicoletta Sannio, and Gianluca Cocco PART III Big Data Analytics in Regional Science 16. From ‘Big Data’ to Big Regions: the Geography of the American Commute Alasdair Rae and Garrett Nelson 17. Big Data, Agents and the City Andrew Crooks, Nick Malleson, Sarah Wise, and Alison Heppenstall 18. Damage Assessment of the Urban Environment during Disasters using Volunteered Geographic Information Carolynne Hultquist, Elena Sava, Guido Cervone, and Nigel Waters 19. Integrating Big Data into a Geospatial Framework of Disaster Impact Analysis Yuri Mansury, Sutee Anantsuksomri, and Nij Tontisirin 20. A Big Data Application of Spatial Microsimulation for Neighbourhoods in England and Wales Michelle A Morris and Stephen Clark 21. Big Data Clustering and Its Applications in Regional Science Yazhou Ren 22. Big Data and Shrinking Cities: How Twitter Can Help Determine Urban Sentiments Justin B. Hollander and Maxwell D. Hartt PARI IV New Frontiers of Big Data in Regional Science: Opportunity and Challenge 23. Big Data in Emerging Cities Pranab K. Roy Chowdhury, Susanna H. Sutherland, Kathleen M. Ernst, Alexander Pawlowski, Erik H. Schmidt, Janna R. Caspersen, Ziliang Zhao, and Budhendra L. Bhaduri 24. Recommendations for Big Data Programs at Transportation Agencies Gregory D. Erhardt, Michael Batty, and Elsa Arcaute 25. Towards Data-Driven Cities: Incorporating Big Data into Urban Management Hossein Estiri and Nader Afzalan 26. Big Data, Privacy and the Policy Process in the U.S.: In Regional Economic Development Roger Stough and Dennis McBride 27. Urban Informatics: Defining an Emerging Field Robert Goodspeed 28. The Constantly Shifting Face of the Digital Divide: Implications for Big Data, Urban Informatics, and Regional Science Laurie A. Schintler Index