What you tweet when you go party can be useful for improving urban planning
Monday, December 29, 2014 - 07:30
in Earth & Climate
Millions of Twitter users are constantly reporting where they are and what they are doing. With this information, two Spanish computer science experts suggest using geolocalized tweets for urban planning and land use. They have already done it in Manhattan, Madrid and London and have been able to identify, for example, nightlife areas of these large cities.