Network algorithms for the identification and classification of gaps in urban bicycle networks based on OSM data What is the best location to build new bicycle infrastructure in a city? This planning decision can be conceptualized as an optimization problem: the goal is to find the most efficient solution – that is, the one that […]
The geometric limits of growing urban bicycle networks City planners worldwide are increasingly realizing that cycling can be a promising solution to their unsustainable car-centric transport systems. However, common bicycle network planning practices follow piecewise ad hoc approaches which do not take into account the transportation network and its structural complexity as a whole. Here […]
Making cities better with human-centric urban data science Making our cities better and sustainable is key to solving the climate and urban transport crises. To this end, urban data science offers new tools to quantify societal problems in cities and to propose human-centric solutions to policy makers. In this talk I outline our recent and […]
Growing cohesive urban bicycle networks City planners worldwide are increasingly realizing that cycling can be a promising solution to their unsustainable car-centric transport systems. However, common bicycle network planning practices follow piecewise ad hoc approaches which do not take into account the transportation network and its structural complexity as a whole. Here we take a […]
Towards a human-centric urban data science Making our cities better and sustainable is key to solving the climate and urban transport crises. To this end, urban data science offers new tools to quantify societal problems in cities and to propose human-centric solutions to policy makers. In this talk I outline our recent and ongoing efforts […]
Abstract Social relationships are the key determinant of crucial societal outcomes, including diffusion of innovation, productivity, happiness, and life expectancy. To better attain such outcomes at scale, it is therefore paramount to have technologies that can effectively capture the type of social relationships from digital data. NLP researchers have tried to do so from conversational […]
Will Cycling Save Our Cities? A Story of Love and Panic The climate crisis is putting our future in danger. Cycling is often described as the go-to “green bullet” to make transportation in cities more sustainable and to reduce our exacerbated fossil fuel consumption. But can we still win the global war on cars, […]
Establishing a quantitative science of bicycle networks Making transportation in cities sustainable is one major key to solving the climate, urban livability, and urban transport crises. To this end, urban data science offers new tools to quantify societal problems in cities and to guide policy makers with human-centric solutions. In this talk I outline our […]
Introduction to Data Science
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