Big Data, Urban Citizenship, and the World Machine

Big Data, Small World

Big data usually includes data sets with sizes beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, curate, manage, and process data within a tolerable elapsed time. In this paper, we have discussed about the various characterstic’s of big data and how data is increasing day by day. There are various aspects of knowledge discovery that are discussed. Moreover, the small world phenomen...

User-Generated Big Data and Urban Morphology

Mining Social and Urban Big Data

In recent years, with the rapid development of positioning technologies, online social networks, sensors and smart devices, large scale human behavioral data are now readily available. The growing availability of such behavioral data provides us unprecedented opportunities to gain more in depth understanding of users in both the physical world and cyber world, especially in online social networ...

Privacy and Security of Big Data in THE Cloud

Big data has been arising a growing interest in both scien- tific and industrial fields for its potential value. However, before employing big data technology into massive appli- cations, a basic but also principle topic should be investigated: security and privacy. One of the biggest concerns of big data is privacy. However, the study on big data privacy is still at a very early stage. Many or...

Social Citizenship and Urban Poverty

The increased visibility of concentrated urban poverty has posed a variety of intellectual and policy challenges in the past decade. The spread of joblessness and economic disinvestment has left many urban neighborhoods in ruins. Fears about the culture and family life of the poor have motivated a variety of responses, including the recent “welfare reform” effort that ended the federal governme...