Abstract of the Sessions:
In recent years, human emotions, intentions, moods and behaviors have been digitised to an extent previously unimagined in the social sciences. This has been in the main due to the rise of a vast array of new data, termed 'Big Data'. These new forms of data have the potential to reshape the future directions of social science research, in particular the methods that scientists use to model and simulate spatially explicit social systems. Given the novelty of this potential "revolution" and the surprising lack of reliable behavioral insight to arise from Big Data research, it is an opportune time to assess the progress that has been made and consider the future directions of socio-spatial modelling in a world that is becoming increasingly well described by Big Data sources.
In these sessions we will have methodological, theoretical and empirical papers that that engage with any aspect of geospatial modelling and the use of Big Data. We are particularly interested in the ways that insight into individual or group behavior can be elucidated from new data sources - including social media contributions, volunteered geographical information, mobile telephone transactions, individually-sensed data, crowd-sourced information, etc. - and used to improve models or simulations. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Using Big Data to inform individual-based models of geographical systems;
- Translating Big Data into agent rules;
- Elucidating behavioral information from diverse data;
- Improving simulated agent behavior;
- Validating agent-based models (ABM) with Big Data;
- Ethics of data collected en masse and their use in simulation.
Wednesday, 4/22/2015.
8:00 AM - 9:40 AM.
600a Classroom, University of Chicago Gleacher Center, 6th Floor.
Chair: Nick Malleson
Abstracts:
*Atsushi Nara:
*Kira Kowalska, John Shawe-Taylor and Paul Longley:
*Martin Zaltz Austwick, Gustavo Romanillos Arroyo and Borka Moya-Gomez:
*Hai Lan and Paul Torrens:
*Philippe J. Giabbanelli, Thomas Burgoine, Pablo Monsivais and James Woodcock:
2292 Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hell? (2)
Wednesday, 4/22/2015.
10:00 AM - 11:40 AM.
600a Classroom, University of Chicago Gleacher Center, 6th Floor.
Chair: Alison Heppenstall
Abstracts:
*Kostas Cheliotis:
*Andrew Crooks and Sarah Wise:
*Ed Manley, Chen Zhong and Michael Batty:
*Alison Heppenstall, *Nick Malleson and Andrew Evans:
Muhammad Adnan, Alistair Leak and *Paul Longley:
2492 Geosimulation and Big Data: A Marriage made in Heaven or Hell? (3) Discussion Session
Wednesday, 4/22/2015.
1:20 PM - 3:00 PM.
600a Classroom, University of Chicago Gleacher Center, 6th Floor.
Chair: Nick Malleson
Abstracts:
*Paul M Torrens and Hai Lan:
*Mark Birkin:
2:00 PM to 3:00PM: Discussion
Organizers
- Alison Heppenstall, School of Geography, University of Leeds
- Nick Malleson, School of Geography, University of Leeds
- Andrew Crooks, Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University
- Paul Torrens, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland
- Ed Manley, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
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