Sarah Williams

ORCID: 0000-0002-8662-8506
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Research Areas
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • ICT in Developing Communities
  • Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Indigenous and Place-Based Education
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Mobile Learning in Education
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Fashion and Cultural Textiles
  • Mathematics Education and Programs
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
  • Agricultural Systems and Practices
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Libraries and Information Services
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013-2025

IIT@MIT
2015-2023

Columbia University
2006-2019

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
2016

Stanford University
2012

Stanford Medicine
2012

University of Otago
1993-1995

Motor Neurone Disease Research Australia
1975

The technology for determining the geographic location of cell phones and other handheld devices is becoming increasingly available. It opening way to a wide range applications, collectively referred as location-based services (LBS), that are primarily aimed at individual users. However, if deployed retrieve aggregated data in cities, LBS could become powerful tool urban analysis. In this paper we aim review introduce potential planning community. addition, present ‘Mobile Landscapes'...

10.1068/b32047 article EN Environment and Planning B Planning and Design 2006-08-25

In many of the world's growing cities, semi-formal buses form basis public transit systems. However, little open and standardized data exist on these The Digital Matatus project in Nairobi, Kenya set out to test whether geo-locative capabilities mobile technology could be used collect a system that translated into General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) standard for wider use. results this work show technologies, particularly phones, which are increasingly prevalent developing countries,...

10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.10.005 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Transport Geography 2015-10-30

With all the recent attention focused on big data, it is easy to overlook that basic vital statistics remain difficult obtain in most of world. What makes this frustrating private companies hold potentially useful but not accessible by people who can use track poverty, reduce disease, or build urban infrastructure. This project set out test whether we transform an openly available dataset (Twitter) into a resource for planning and development. We our hypothesis creating road traffic crash...

10.1371/journal.pone.0244317 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2021-02-03

Recent work has pointed towards the possibility that industries are not tied to their specific urban location as much linkages with particular types of infrastructure and social economic networks. Industries have similar clustering patterns even in very different cities. Using Bureau Labor Statistics data, we conducted geographic information systems (GIS) analysis compare cultural Los Angeles New York City, two cities geography environments. Two distinct findings emerged: (1) when...

10.1177/0739456x09358559 article EN Journal of Planning Education and Research 2010-03-01

The following is the text of a paper we presented at 1992 Annual Meeting American Anthropological Association in San Francisco. It represents first attempt positioning cyborg anthropology late capitalist world that situates academic theorizing alongside popular theorizing. We view as descriptive label marks cultural project rather than an elite practice. In other words, not just for anthropologists or professional intellectuals. Although cite broad social and intellectual movements, do...

10.1525/can.1995.10.2.02a00060 article EN Cultural Anthropology 1995-05-01

With the advent of 'big data' there is an increased interest in using social media to describe city dynamics. This paper employs geo-located data identify 'digital neighborhoods' – those areas where used more often. Starting with Twitter and Foursquare for New York City region 2014, we applied spatial clustering techniques detect significant groupings or 'neighborhoods' use high low. The results show that beyond business districts, digital neighborhoods occur communities undergoing shifting...

10.1080/17549175.2015.1080752 article EN Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 2015-09-30

The US fashion industry is a useful lens through which to view the transformation of country’s urban economic systems. Initially an industrial vanguard, has evolved into more design-oriented sector and central part ‘cognitive-cultural economy’. Fashion also clear demonstration place-specific comparative advantage specialisation, intensely linked ‘place in product’. paper traces industry’s evolution from 1986 2007, focusing on New York Los Angeles. composition each locale demonstrates city’s...

10.1177/0042098010392080 article EN Urban Studies 2011-03-15

To make good decisions about the future direction of cities we need data to contextualize and recommendations that are based on past results potential models for future. Yet access information including geographic systems (GIS) is challenging, particularly as often seen a commodity or source power by those who control it, dynamic more severe in contexts like Kenya. By generating GIS our own transportation model then sharing them with interested doing research Nairobi, experienced firsthand...

10.1080/00045608.2013.846157 article EN Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2013-11-20

10.5220/0013347500003912 article EN Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications 2025-01-01

William Whyte, one of the most well-known urban planners, documented hundreds hours street life using videos, cameras, and interviews to develop social physical policy recommendations for cities. Since then, studies public have primarily depended on human observation data collection. Our research sets out test whether Do-it-Yourself sensor technologies can automate this collection process. To answer question, our team embedded sensors in moveable benches evaluated their performance according...

10.1177/2399808319852636 article EN Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science 2019-09-14

10.1126/science.247.4947.1179 article EN Science 1990-03-09

Industrial agglomerations have long been thought to offer economic and social benefits firms people that are only captured by location within their specified geographies. Using the case study of New York City's garment industry along with data acquired from cell phones media, this set out understand discrete activities underpinning dynamics an industrial agglomeration. Over a two week period, was collected employing geo-locative capabilities Foursquare, media application, record every...

10.1371/journal.pone.0086165 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2014-02-05

Human mobility patterns created from mobile phone call detail records (CDRs) can provide an essential resource in data-poor environments to monitor the effects of health outbreaks. Analysis this data be instrumental for understanding movement pattern populations allowing governments set and refine policies respond community risks. Building on CDR analysis techniques, research out test whether combining indicators with socio-economic information illustrate differences between different...

10.1177/23998083231158377 article EN Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science 2023-06-01
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