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Title Predicting Innovative Cities Using Spatio-Temporal Activity Patterns
ID_Doc 42712
Authors Muñoz-Cancino R.; Ríos S.A.; Graña M.
Year 2023
Published Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 14001 LNAI
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40725-3_48
Abstract Understanding cities’ complexity is essential for correctly developing public policies and urban management. Only some studies have attempted to relate the activity carried out by city inhabitants with the macro characteristics of a city, mainly its capacity to innovate. In this study, we seek to find those features that allow us to distinguish between an innovative city from those still on the way to becoming one. To carry out this analysis, we have the activity patterns decomposition obtained through geo-tagged social media digital traces and their respective innovation index for more than 100 cities worldwide. The results show that it is possible to predict the city’s innovative category from their activity patterns. Our model achieves an AUC = 0.71 and a KS = 0.42. This result is significant because it allows us to establish a relationship between the activities carried out by people in the city and their innovation index, a characteristic given for the capacity and development of cultural assets, infrastructure, and the quality of markets. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Author Keywords Dynamic Topic Model; Geo-tagged digital traces; Smart Cities; Spatiotemporal Patterns


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