Program: NSF-sponsored workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics, Chicago, IL Aug 11-12, 2014

WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA AND URBAN INFORMATICS SPONSORED BY NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

August 11-‐12, 2014. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

PROGRAM

DAY 1: MON 11 AUGUST 2014

8:00 - 8:45 On-Site Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 - 9:45 Opening Remarks and Plenary Vonu Thakuriah, University of Glasgow, UK

PARALLEL SESSIONS

9:45 – 10:00 Developing an Interactive Mobile Information Platform to Integrate Environmental Big Data and Citizen Science in Urban Environmental Management. Tang, Zhenghong, Yanfu Zhou, Hongfeng Yu, Tiantian Liu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

10:00 – 10:15 CyberGIS Enabled Urban Sensing from Volunteered Citizen Participation using Mobile Devices. Yin, Junjun and Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

10:15-10:30 Using Big Data to Study Urban Sentiments: Twitter Data vs. Published Meeting Minutes. Hollander, Justin, Tufts University, USA and Erin Graves, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, USA.

10:30 – 10:45 Using Social Media Data to Understand Cities. Tasse, Dan and Jason Hong, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Break: 10:45 – 10:50 10:50 – 11:05 Fast Food Data: The Usefulness of Social Media Byproducts. Manduca, Robert, MIT, Seth Spielman and David Folch, University of Colorado, USA.

11:05 – 11:20 Crowdsourcing Street Beauty: A New Method for Visual Preference Surveys. Goodspeed, Robert, University of Michigan, USA

11:20-11:35 Visualizing a City Using Collection of Crowdsensed Sound. Tobe, Yoshito, Itaru Usami, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, and Niwat Thepvilojanapong, Mie University, Japan

11:35 – 11:45: Additional Q&A and discussion

9:45 – 11:45 Session 1.1: Analytics of User-Generated Content Moderator: TBD



9:45 – 10:00 Big Data and Survey Research: Supplement or Substitute? Johnson, Timothy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. 10:00 – 10:15 When Big Data Are Not Complete: A Time Geographic Analysis of Taxicab GPS Traces. Wood, Brittany, and Mark W. Horner, Florida State University, USA. 10:15-10:30 Considering Smartphones: Testing Big Data Veracity via User Privacy and Trust in Location-Aware Applications. Cottrill, Caitlin, University of Aberdeen, UK. 10:30 – 10:45 True Lies in Big Data: Detecting Location Spoofing in Social Media. Zhao, Bo, and Daniel Sui, Ohio State University, USA. Break: 10:45 – 10:50 10:50 – 11:05 Accounting for Heteroscedasticity in Big Data. Antunes, Francisco, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Francisco Pereira, SMART-MIT, Singapore, Filipe Rodrigues, CISUC, Portugal, and Moshe Ben-Akiva, MIT, USA

11:05 – 11:20 The Designer as Policy Maker – Investigating Citizen-Contributed Data Beyond “Truth” and “Bias”. Offenhuber, Dietmar, Northeastern University, USA

11:20-11:35 The Potential for Big Data to Improve Neighborhood-Level Census Data. Spielman, Seth, University of Colorado, USA


11:45 - 1:00

LUNCH and KEYNOTE ADDRESS

SPEAKER: Paul Waddell, University of California at Berkeley at 12 pm

9:45 – 11:45 Session 1.2: Data behind Urban Big Data Moderator: TBD



1:00 – 1:15 Big Data for Plan-Making: Using Volunteered Geographic Information in Bike-share Planning. Afzalan, Nader, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.

1:15 – 1:30 Planning for the Change: Mapping Sea Level Rise and Storm Inundation in Sherman Island Using 3Di Hydrodynamic Model and LiDAR. Ju, Yang, Wei-Chen Hsu, John D. Radke, William L. Fourt, Wei Lang, Howard Foster, University of California at Berkeley, USA, Olivier Hoes, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and Martine Schmidt-Poolman, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

1:30 – 1:45 Parameterizing Land Use Planning: Deploying Quantitative Analysis Methods in the Practice of City Planning. Kaufman, Talia, MIT, USA 1:45 – 2:00 Estimating Driving and Parking Patterns from Cellular Network Data: An Application to Plug-In Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Planning. Dong, Jing, Iowa State University and Xuesong Zhou, Iowa State University, USA 2:00 – 2:10: Additional Q&A and discussion

1:00 – 1:15 How Should Urban Planners Be Trained to Handle Big Data? French, Steven and Camille Barchers, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 1:15 – 1:30 Big Spatio-temporal Network Data Analytics for Smart Cities: Research Needs. Gunturi, Venkata M.V. and Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA 1:30 – 1:45 ‘Big’ Data + ‘Open’ Data + ‘Mobile’ Data: A Framework for Urban Informatics. Desouza, Kevin, Arizona State University, USA.

1:00 – 2:10 Session 2.1: Urban Plan-Making Moderator: TBD

1:00 – 2:10 Session 2.1: Changing Organizational and Educational Perspectives with Big and Open Urban Data Moderator: TBD



1:45 – 2:00 Emerging Urban Digital Infomediaries and Civic Hacking in an Era of Big Data and Open Data Initiatives Thakuriah, Piyushimita (Vonu), University of Glasgow, UK, Lise Dirks and Yaye Keita-Mallon, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. 2:00 – 2:10: Additional Q&A and discussion

3:00 – 3:15 The Influence of Distance Decay Coefficient on Modularity-based Community Detection in Spatial Networks. Wang, Yaoli, University of Georgia, USA and Song Gao, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

3:15 – 3:30 Seeing Chinese Cities through Big Data. Wu, Jeremy, Consultant, USA and Rui Zhang, Digital China Holdings Limited, China 3:30 – 3:45 Spatially-Explicit Computational Evaluation of Urban Accessibility from a Human’s Point of View. Ben-Elia, Eran, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Itzhak Benenson, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Yodan Rofe, Ben Gurion University, Israel, and Dimitry Geyzersky, Performit Ltd, Israel 3:45 – 4:00 Inside the Triangle: Does Database Selection Alter our Understanding of Urban Industrial Systems? Donegan, Mary, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Break: 4:00 – 4:05 4:05 – 4:20 Examining Intraurban Migration in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area using Parcel Data. Sun, Shipeng, University of Minnesota, USA. 4:20 – 4:35 Modeling Urban Capacity with Public Data: Realizing Universal Pre-K in New York City. Dunks, Richard, Ravi Shroff, Miguel Castro, Jeongki Lim and Haozhe Wang, New York University, USA. 4:35 – 4:50 The Southern California Housing Bubble: Neighborhood Level Measures and Economic Implications. Moenius, Johannes, University of Redlands, USA.

3:00 - 5:00 Session 3.1: Urban Knowledge Discovery – Part 1 Moderator: TBD

2:10 - 3:00: Group Activity Session.




3:00 – 3:15 Understanding the Usage of NYC Taxicabs for Vehicle Electrification in a Large Metropolitan Area. Dutta, Promiti, Columbia University, USA.

3:15 – 3:30 Optimizing Subway Systems using Mobile Phone Location Data. Zhao, Ziliang, Shih-Lung Shaw and Yang Xu, University of Tennessee, USA.

3:30 – 3:45 The Impact of Land-Use Variables on Free-floating Carsharing Vehicle Rental Choice and Parking Duration. Khan, Mubassira, Randy Machemehl and Zhanmin Zhang, University of Texas at Austin, USA

3:45 – 4:00 Big Urban Probe Data for the Provision of Advanced Traveler Information Services and Traffic Management Schemes Mitsakis, Evangelos, Josep Maria Salanova Grau and Iraklis Stamos, Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece.

Break: 4:00 – 4:05 4:05 – 4:20 Activity based Travel Demand Analysis in the Age of Big Data. Farooq, Bilal, Galo Reinoso and Nicolas Saunier, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

4:20 – 4:35 Identifying Driving Risk Factors to Support Usage-Based Insurance using Smartphone Personalized Driving Data. Chiu, Yi-Chang, University of Arizona, USA, Yu-Luen Ma, Illinois State University, USA, and Xianbiao Hu, Metropia Inc., USA. 4:35- 4:50 Integrating Fixed and Mobile Arterial Roadway Data Sources for Transportation Analysis. Bigazzi, Alexander, Wei Feng, Adam Moore and Miguel Figliozzi, Portland State University, USA.


3:00 - 5:00 Session 3.2: Urban Knowledge Discovery – Part 2 Moderator: TBD

5:00 - 6:45

Reception

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Structured Group Activity for Research Innovation.

Chair: Moira Zellner, University of Illinois at Chicago



Day 2: TUE 12 AUGUST 2014

8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00 UbiActive: A Smartphone-Based Tool for Trip Detection and Travel-Related Physical Activity Assessment. Fan, Yingling, University of Minnesota, USA.

9:00 – 9:15 Archive of Many Outdoor Scenes: Using Public, Online Webcams for Public Health Surveillance. Hipp, Aaron, Deepti Adlakha, Rebecca Gernes, Agata Kargol and Robert Pless, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

9:15 – 9:30 Extracting Activity Patterns from GPS Track Data. Hwang, Sungsoon, DePaul University, USA, Christian Evans and Timothy Hanke, Midwestern University, USA.

Break: 9:30 – 9:35 9:35 – 9:50 Computable Liveability. Geers, Glenn, NICTA, Australia.

9:50 – 10:05 Advancing Sustainability Indicators Through Text Mining: A Feasibility Demonstration. Rivera, Samuel, Barbara Minsker, Daniel Work and Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. 10:05 – 10:20 ‘Big Data’: Pedestrian Volume Using Google Street View Images. Yin, Li, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA, Qimin Cheng, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China, and Zhenfeng Shao, Wuhan University, China.


8:45 – 9:00 On City Dashboards and Data Stores. O'Brien, Oliver, James Cheshire, Steven Gray, Michael Batty and Andrew Hudson-Smith, University College London, UK.

8:45 - 10:45 Session 4.1: Livability, Sustainability, Health and Well-Being Moderator: TBD

8:45 - 10:45 Session 4.2: Urban Data Management Moderator: TBD



9:00 – 9:15 Centralized Real Time Data Platforms. Cabanas, Oliver, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Celine Steer, Freelancer, Italy.

9:15 – 9:30 AURIN Supporting Urban Informatics through a Big Data Analytics Online Workbench. Pettit, Chris and Phil Delaney, University of Melbourne, Australia. Break: 9:30 – 9:35 9:35 – 9:50 Combining Physical and Participatory Sensing in Urban Mobility Networks. Xie, Xiao-Feng and Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. 9:50 – 10:05 A Big Data Mashing Tool for Measuring Transit System Performance. Erhardt, Gregory, Oliver Lock, Elsa Arcaute and Michael Batty, University College London, UK 10:05 – 10:20 Collecting, Mapping, Analyzing, and Archiving Urban Soundscapes. Park, Tae Hong, New York University, USA 10:20 – 10:35 Big Data, Small Apps. Carr, Sara and Allison Lassiter, University of California, Berkeley, USA.


10:45 - 10:55 Break

10:55 – 11:10 Filling in some gaps: mitigating the digital divide of urban data between developed and developing worlds. Liu, Xingjian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, Yan Song, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA, Ying Long, Beijing Institute of City Planning, China, Dong Li, China Academy of Urban Planning, Jianghao Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and Mingrui Mao, Beijing Institute of City Planning, China.

11:10 – 11:25 Big Data and Equity in U.S. Cities. Nguyen, Mai and Emma Boundy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA.

10:55 - 12:05 Session 5.1: Insights into Social Equity Moderator: TBD



11:25 – 11:40 Modeling Social Justice Issues in Urban Zones Using Big Data: Evidence from Bikeshare and Taxicab Data. King, David, Columbia University, USA, Jonathan Peters, City University of New York, USA, Adam Davidson, City University of New York, USA, and Juan Francisco Saldarriaga, Columbia University, USA.

11:40 – 11:55 Applications of Machine Learning to “Stop and Frisk”. Shroff, Ravi, and Alex Chohlas-Wood, New York University, USA. 11:55 – 12:05: Additional Q&A and discussion

10:55 – 11:10 Dynamic Agent Based Simulation of an Urban Disaster using Synthetic Big Data. Felsenstein, Daniel, A. Yair Grinberger and Michal Lichter, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

11:10 – 11:25 Scaling an Urban Emergency Evacuation Framework: Challenges and Practices. Karthik, Rajasekar, and Wei Lu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. 11:25 – 11:40 Using Social Media to fill the Gaps in Urban Areas During Emergencies. Cervone, Guido, Pennsylvania State University, USA, Emily Schnebele and Nigel Waters, George Mason University, USA.

11:40 – 11:55 Agent-based Large-Scale Emergency Evacuation Using Real-Time Open Government Data. Lu, Wei, Cheng Liu and Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. 11:55 – 12:05: Additional Q&A and discussion

12:05 - 1:30

LUNCH and KEYNOTE ADDRESS

SPEAKER: CARLO RATTI, MIT at 12:30 PM

10:55 - 12:05 Session 5.2: Emergencies and Crisis Informatics Moderator: TBD



1:30 – 1:45 From Global to Local: Big Data and Model Development for Spatially and Temporally Scalable Multi-Modal and Multi-Commodity Freight Transportation. Shen, Guoqiang, University of Oklahoma, USA. 1:45 – 2:00 Impact of Subway Accessibility on Taxi Trip Generation in New York City. Wan, Dan, Camille Kamga and Anil Yazici, City College of New York, USA.

2:00 – 2:15 Big Brother is Watching You... To Predict Crashes. St-Aubin, Paul, Nicolas Saunier, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada, and Luis Miranda-Moreno, McGill University, Canada.

2:15 – 2:30 Developing a Comprehensive US Transit Accessibility Database. Owen, Andrew and David Levinson, University of Minnesota, USA.

Break: 2:30 – 2:35 2:35 – 2:50 A Bayesian Urban Link Travel Time Estimation Model Using Large-scale Taxi Trip Data. Zhan, Xianyuan and Satish Ukkusuri, Purdue University, USA.

2:50 – 3:05 Modeling Taxi Demand and Supply in New York Using Large-Scale Taxi GPS Data. Yang, Ci, Rutgers University, USA, and Eric Gonzales, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

3:05 – 3:20 Guiding Data-Driven Transportation Decisions. Knobe, Kath, Intel, USA, David Maier, Veronika Megler and Kristin Tufte, Portland State University, USA.


1:30 – 1:45 On Exploring Spatial Correlations in Census Derived Socioeconomic Datasets. Prabhu, Vinay, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Rohit Negi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Miguel Rodrigues, University College London, UK. 1:45 – 2:00 Finding Public Transportation Community Structure based on Large-Scale Smart Card Records in Beijing.

1:30 - 3:30 Session 6.1: Transportation Analysis – Part 2 Moderator: TBD

1:30 - 3:30 Session 6.2: Urban Knowledge Discovery - Part 2 Moderator: TBD



Gao, Song, University of California Santa Barbara, USA and Ying Long, Beijing Institute of City Planning, China.

2:00 – 2:15 Planning in the Big Data Era: A Theme Study of Residential Energy Policy. Estiri, Hossein, University of Washington, USA.

2:15 - 2:30 Exploring the Use of ‘Big Data’ for Analyzing the Dynamic Spatial Patterns of Hotel and Entertainment Development. Yin, Li, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA, Liang Wu, China University of Geosciences, China, Sam Cole and Laiyun Wu, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA.

Break: 2:30 – 2:35 2:35 – 2:50 Time-geographic Relationships between Vector Field Densities of Activity Patterns and Transport Systems. Liu, Xintao, Wai Yeung Yan and Joseph Chow, Ryerson University, Canada. 2:50 – 3: 05 Popular Urban Amenities: The Ingredients of Attractive Restaurant Areas in Dutch Cities. Arribas-Bel, Daniel, University of Birmingham, UK and Jessie Bakens, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. 3:05 – 3:20 The Challenges of Tall and Wide Data: An Example from Building Energy Consumption. Hsu, David, University of Pennsylvania, USA.


3:30 - 3:40 Break

3:40 - 4:20 Panel Discussion on Main Points Raised in Workshop.

Moderator: Nebiyou Tilahun, University of Illinois at Chicago

4:20 - 4:45 Open Discussion on Future Plans.

Moderator: Vonu Thakuriah, University of Glasgow

Program: NSF-sponsored workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics, Chicago, IL Aug 11-12, 2014

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