Social Glass: A Platform for Urban Analytics and Decision-making Through Heterogeneous Social Data (2018)
Authors: Stefano Bocconi, Alessandro Bozzon, Achilleas Psyllidis, Christiaan Titos Bolivar, Geert-Jan Houben
This demo presents Social Glass, a novel web-based platform that supports the analysis, valorisation, integration, and vi- sualisation of large-scale and heterogeneous urban data in the domains of city planning and decision-making. The platform systematically combines publicly available social datasets from municipalities together with social media stre- ams (e.g. Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare) and resources from knowledge repositories. It further enables the map- ping of demographic information, human movement pat- terns, place popularity, traffic conditions, as well as citizens’ and visitors’ opinions and preferences with regard to spe- cific venues in the city. Social Glass will be demonstrated through several real-world case studies, that exemplify the framework’s conceptual properties, and its potential value as a solution for urban analytics and city-scale event moni- toring and assessment.