Scaling of City Attractiveness for Foreign Visitors through Big Data of Human Economical and Social Media Activity

• Published in: 2015 IEEE International Congress on Big Data
• Main Authors: Sobolevsky, Stanislav, Bojic, Iva, Belyi, Alexander, Sitko, Izabela, Hawelka, Bartosz, Arias, Juan Murillo, Ratti, Carlo
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SENSEable City Laboratory
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2015
• Subjects: Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101645

Scientific studies investigating laws and regularities of human behavior are nowadays increasingly relying on the wealth of widely available digital information produced by human activity. In this paper we use big data created by three different aspects of this activity (i.e., Bank card transactions...