Do poverty and wealth look the same the world over? A comparative study of 12 cities from five high-income countries using street images [0.03%]
全球各地的贫穷和富有看起来都一样吗？基于五个高收入国家的十二个城市街景图像的比较研究
Esra Suel,Emily Muller,James E Bennett et al.
Esra Suel et al.
Urbanization and inequalities are two of the major policy themes of our time, intersecting in large cities where social and economic inequalities are particularly pronounced. Large scale street-level images are a source of city-wide visual ...
The shock, the coping, the resilience: smartphone application use reveals Covid-19 lockdown effects on human behaviors [0.03%]
疫情封锁对人类行为的影响：来自手机应用程序使用的启示
Xiao Fan Liu,Zhen-Zhen Wang,Xiao-Ke Xu et al.
Xiao Fan Liu et al.
Human mobility restriction policies have been widely used to contain the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). However, a critical question is how these policies affect individuals' behavioral and psychological well-being during and after conf...
Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics [0.03%]
利用移动数据识别潜在活动模式和生活方式以描述城市动态
Yanni Yang,Alex Pentland,Esteban Moro
Yanni Yang
Urbanization and its problems require an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of urban dynamics, especially the complex and diversified lifestyles in modern cities. Digitally acquired data can accurately capture complex human activity, ...
Digital traces of brain drain: developers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine [0.03%]
俄罗斯入侵乌克兰期间的脑外流：开发人员的数字痕迹
Johannes Wachs
Johannes Wachs
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused large scale destruction, significant loss of life, and the displacement of millions of people. Besides those fleeing direct conflict in Ukraine, many individuals in Russia are also thought to have ...
Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning [0.03%]
使用可解释的机器学习预测流感大流行引起的概念漂移患者的流动趋势
Teo Susnjak,Paula Maddigan
Teo Susnjak
Accurately forecasting patient arrivals at Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs) and Emergency Departments (EDs) is important for effective resourcing and patient care. However, correctly estimating patient flows is not straightforward since it depend...
Experimental evaluation of baselines for forecasting social media timeseries [0.03%]
用于预测社交媒体时间序列的基准实验评估方法
Kin Wai Ng,Frederick Mubang,Lawrence O Hall et al.
Kin Wai Ng et al.
Forecasting social media activity can be of practical use in many scenarios, from understanding trends, such as which topics are likely to engage more users in the coming week, to identifying unusual behavior, such as coordinated informatio...
Hiroyasu Inoue,Yasuyuki Todo
Hiroyasu Inoue
This study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected online purchasing behavior using data from a major online shopping platform in Japan. We focus on the effect of two measures of the pandemic, i.e., the number of positive COVID-19 c...
Giovanni Mauro,Massimiliano Luca,Antonio Longa et al.
Giovanni Mauro et al.
The increasingly crucial role of human displacements in complex societal phenomena, such as traffic congestion, segregation, and the diffusion of epidemics, is attracting the interest of scientists from several disciplines. In this article,...
Accurate intercensal estimates of energy access to track Sustainable Development Goal 7 [0.03%]
准确估算两次人口普查之间能源获取状况以追踪第七个可持续发展目标
Neeti Pokhriyal,Emmanuel Letouzé,Soroush Vosoughi
Neeti Pokhriyal
Intercensal estimates of access to electricity and clean cooking fuels at policy planning microregions in a country are essential for understanding their evolution and tracking progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 7. Surveys...
The potential of Facebook advertising data for understanding flows of people from Ukraine to the European Union [0.03%]
Facebook广告数据在理解来自乌克兰到欧盟的人口流动方面的潜力
Umberto Minora,Claudio Bosco,Stefano M Iacus et al.
Umberto Minora et al.
This work contributes to the discussion on how innovative data can support a fast crisis response. We use operational data from Facebook to gain useful insights on where people fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion are likely to be...