Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge: Volunteered Geographic by Daniel Sui,Sarah Elwood,Michael Goodchild

By Daniel Sui,Sarah Elwood,Michael Goodchild

The phenomenon of volunteered geographic info is a part of a profound transformation in how geographic information, details, and information are produced and circulated. by way of situating volunteered geographic details (VGI) within the context of big-data deluge and the data-intensive inquiry, the 20 chapters during this ebook discover either the theories and purposes of crowdsourcing for geographic wisdom construction with 3 sections targeting 1).  VGI, Public Participation, and Citizen technological know-how; 2). Geographic wisdom creation and position Inference; and 3). rising functions and New Challenges.  This booklet argues that destiny growth in VGI learn relies largely on development robust linkages with diversified geographic scholarship. members of this quantity situate VGI examine in geography’s center matters with house and position, and provide a number of methods of addressing continual demanding situations of caliber coverage in VGI. This e-book positions VGI as a part of a shift towards hybrid epistemologies, and almost certainly a fourth paradigm of data-intensive inquiry around the sciences. It additionally considers the consequences of VGI and the exaflood for additional time-space compression and new types, levels of electronic inequality, the renewed value of geography, and the function of crowdsourcing for geographic wisdom production.

Show description

Read Online or Download Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Theory and Practice PDF

Best data mining books

Data Mining and Statistics for Decision Making (Wiley Series in Computational Statistics)

Info mining is the method of instantly looking out huge volumes of knowledge for types and styles utilizing computational concepts from facts, desktop studying and data concept; it's the excellent device for such an extraction of information. information mining is generally linked to a enterprise or an organization's have to establish tendencies and profiles, permitting, for instance, shops to find styles on which to base advertising targets.

Measuring the Digital World: Using Digital Analytics to Drive Better Digital Experiences (FT Press Analytics)

This is often the publication of the broadcast booklet and will no longer comprise any media, site entry codes, or print vitamins that could come packaged with the certain ebook.   The definitive advisor to subsequent new release electronic size; vital perception for construction high-value electronic reviews! is helping you seize the information you want to bring deep personalization at scale displays today’s newest insights into electronic habit and client psychology for each electronic marketer, analyst, and government who desires to increase functionality To win at electronic, you need to trap the fitting information, quick remodel it into the precise knowledge,and use them either to convey deep personalization at scale.

Spatial Data Mining: Theory and Application

·        This ebook is an up to date model of awell-received booklet formerly released in chinese language by means of technology Press of China(the first variation in 2006 and the second one in 2013). It deals a scientific andpractical evaluation of spatial information mining, which mixes computing device technology andgeo-spatial info technological know-how, permitting every one box to benefit from theknowledge and strategies of the opposite.

Knowledge and Systems Sciences: 17th International Symposium, KSS 2016, Kobe, Japan, November 4-6, 2016, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science)

This e-book constitutes the refereed court cases of the seventeenth foreign Symposium, KSS 2016, held in Kobe, Japan, in November 2016. The 21 revised complete papers provided have been rigorously reviewed and chosen from forty eight submissions. The papers conceal themes such as: Algorithms for giant information; colossal info and education; Big info and healthcare; Big facts and tourism; Big facts and social media orientated wisdom discovery and knowledge mining, text mining, suggestion approach, etc; Big info, social media and societal management; creation of agent-based social platforms sciences; collective intelligence; complex procedure modeling and complexity; decision research and selection aid systems; internet+ and agriculture; internet+ and open innovation; knowledge construction, creativity aid, understanding aid, and so on.

Extra info for Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Theory and Practice

Example text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.55 of 5 – based on 19 votes