Research theme: Smart City and Big Data

Jianzheng Liu

The recent explosive publications of big data studies have well documented the rise of big data and its ongoing prevalence. Different types of “big data” have emerged and have greatly enriched spatial information sciences and related fields in terms of breadth and granularity. Studies that were difficult to conduct in the past time due to data availability can now be carried out.

The aim of this research theme is to enhance our understanding of the cities through various applications of big data.

Relevant Papers

Jianzheng Liu, Jie Li, Weifeng Li, and Jiansheng Wu. 2015. Rethinking big data: A review on the data quality and usage issues. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. doi: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.11.006.
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Xingang Zhou, Jianzheng Liu, Anthony Yeh, Yang Yue, Weifeng Li. 2014. The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem in Identifying Activity Centers Using Mobile Phone Positioning Data and Point of Interest Data. In Y. Leung & F. Harvey (Eds.), Advances in Spatial Data Handling and Analysis: Select Papers from the 16th IGU Spatial Data Handling Symposium (pp. 107-119). New York, USA: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-19950-4_7.

Presentations

  • 2015. The 3rd International Conference on Social Policy and Governance Innovation, organized by Department of Asian and Policy Studies in The Hong Kong Institute of Education and School of Public Administration in South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, Nov 28-29, 2015. Presentation title: Rethinking big data: A review on the data quality and usage issues.
  • 2015. The 2015 Annual Conference of Economic Geography in China, organized by the Commission on Economic Geography of Geographical Society of China, Changchun, June 26-28, 2015. Presentation title: Authenticity of Big Data – A review on the Quality of Big Data.
  • 2015. The 6th International Conference of Spatially Integrated Humanities and Social Sciences, organized by Regional Science Association of China and College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Central China Normal University, Wuhan, June 21-22, 2015. Presentation title: Rethinking Big Data in Urban Studies.
  • 2015. The 8th Greater China Geographic Information Science Conference, Hong Kong, January 7-9. Presentation title: Rethinking Big Data in Urban Studies.