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The Livehoods Project: Utilizing Social Media to Understand the Dynamics of a City

Published on Jul 06, 201211848 Views

Justin Cranshaw

Studying the social dynamics of a city on a large scale has tra- ditionally been a challenging endeavor, requiring long hours of observation and interviews, usually resulting in only a par- tial depic

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Utilizing Social Media to Understand the Dynamics of a City00:00
Neighborhoods (1)00:27
Neighborhoods (2)00:56
What comes to mind when you picture your neighborhood?01:43
The Image of a Neighborhood (1)01:55
The Image of a Neighborhood (2)02:00
The Image of a Neighborhood (3)02:06
The Image of a Neighborhood (4)02:11
The Image of a Neighborhood (5)02:34
Studying Perceptions: Cognitive Maps02:49
Two Perspectives04:08
Collective Cognitive Maps05:11
Observing the City: SmartPhones05:58
Smart Phones06:13
Hypothesis06:32
Clustering The City07:17
Clustering Intuition08:02
Groups of like-minded people tend to stay in the same areas (1)08:05
Groups of like-minded people tend to stay in the same areas (2)08:15
Relationships between checkin venues08:21
Identify natural borders in the urban landscape08:28
“Livehoods”08:37
Clustering Methodology08:49
Social Venue Similarity08:54
Venue Affinity Matrix10:33
Spectral Clustering11:55
Post Processing12:16
Related Livehoods13:13
Data13:46
The Data13:49
livehoods.org14:30
livehoods.org - print screen14:38
Livehood #77 (1)14:54
Livehood #77 (2)15:10
Livehood #77 (3)15:13
Evaluation15:19
Pittsburgh Livehoods15:22
How do we evaluate this?15:33
Work16:06
Evaluation16:17
Interview Protocol16:54
Interview Results17:35
South Side Pittsburgh (1)17:38
South Side Pittsburgh (2)17:48
South Side Pittsburgh (3)17:54
South Side Pittsburgh (4)18:07
South Side Pittsburgh (5)18:18
South Side Pittsburgh (6)18:32
South Side Pittsburgh (7)18:37
South Side Pittsburgh (8)18:43
South Side Pittsburgh (9)19:06
South Side Pittsburgh (10)19:55
South Side Pittsburgh (11)20:28
South Side Pittsburgh (12)20:52
South Side Pittsburgh (13)21:05
Shadyside and East Liberty21:25
Shadyside21:33
East Liberty21:38
The Train Tracks21:48
The Whole Foods21:51
The Pedestrian Bridge21:54
Conclusions21:59
Limitations22:24
Future Work22:42
Thanks!22:45
Sources22:49