Integrating GPS trajectory and topics from Twitter stream for human mobility estimation

• DOI: 10.1007/s11704-017-6464-3
• Publication Date: 2018-05-19T05:04:44Z
• Authors: Satoshi Miyazawa; Xuan Song; Tianqi Xia; Ryosuke Shibasaki; Hodaka Kaneda
• Keywords: 11. Sustainability; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Understanding urban dynamics and large-scale human mobility will play a vital role in building smart cities and sustainable urbanization. Existing research in this domain mainly focuses on a single data source (e.g., GPS data, CDR data, etc.). In this study, we collect big and heterogeneous data and aim to investigate and discover the relationship between spatiotemporal topics found in geo-tagged tweets and GPS traces from smartphones. We employ Latent Dirichlet Allocation-based topic modeling on geo-tagged tweets to extract and classify the topics. Then the extracted topics from tweets and temporal population distribution from GPS traces are jointly used to model urban dynamics and human crowd flow. The experimental results and validations demonstrate the efficiency of our approach and suggest that the fusion of cross-domain data for urban dynamics modeling is more practical than previously thought.