urban*: crowdsourcing for the good of london
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Urban*: Crowdsourcing for the good of London
@danielequercia
Situation
75% in USA (already!)
plus 1.2B by 2025 in USA
plus 5M /month in developing
Problem
Inequality!
Solution
$Timely allocation of scarce resources
r=.350 word count r=.365 MaxEnt
predicting socioeconomic well-being with twitter
social media environment sports health Royal wedding
Spanish/Portuguesecelebrity gossips
Talk of the City [ICWSM’12]
well-off deprived
Visibility
visibility & well-being
WWW Game!
WEIRD trap!Few hundreds of WEIRDosWhite,Educated,Industrialized,Rich, and Democratic undergraduates
launched few months ago > 2K players
Regions
Boroughs
Vibility vs. Exposure
Distinctiveness(e.g., interesting architecture)Area more visibile than exposure would suggest