Dr. Matthew Zook from UK Department of Geography focuses on the value of openly sharing research data, especially in terms of how it contributes to scholarship, innovation, and the public good.
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Sharing Research Data for Fun and Profit Advancing Innovation and Scholarship Prof. Matthew Zook Department of Geography University of Kentucky  Open Access Week University of Kentucky October 23, 2014 ** My research ** How are geotagged, user-produced data and social media interacting with and mediating urban space and places? Shelton, T., Poorthuis, A., Graham, M. and M. Zook. 2014. Mapping the Data Shadows of Hurricane Sandy: Uncovering the Sociospatial Dimensions of ‘Big Data’. Geoforum. Vol 52 (3), 167-179.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.01.006  Zook, M., Graham, M, and A. Boulton. 2014. Crowd-Sourced Augmented Realities: Social Media and the Power of Digital Representation. Chapter in S. Mains, J. Cupples, and C. Lukinbeal. Mediated Geographies/Geographies of Media. Springer Science International Handbooks in Human Geography. Graham, M. and Zook, M. 2014. Augmentierte Geographien: Zur digitalen Erfahrung des städtischen Alltags. Geographische Rundschau. 65(6) 18-25. Shelton, Taylor Matthew Zook and Alan Wiig. 2014. The ‘actually existing smart city’ Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Forthcoming. Poorthuis, Ate and M. Zook.2014. Artists and Bankers and Hipsters, Oh My! Mapping Tweets in the New York Metropolitan Region. Cityscape. Forthcoming Zook, M. and A. Poorthuis. 2014. Offline Brews and Online Views: Exploring the Geography of Beer Tweets. Chapter in M. Patterson and N.Hoalst-Pullen Geographies of Beer. Springer. 201-209. Jeremy W. Crampton, Mark Graham, Ate Poorthuis, Taylor Shelton, Monica Stephens, Matthew W. Wilson and Matthew Zook. (2013). Beyond the Geotag? Deconstructing “Big Data” and Leveraging the Potential of the Geoweb.  Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS) 40 (2), 130-139. DOI:10.1080/15230406.2013.777137 Poorthuis, A and M. Zook.(2013). Spaces of Volunteered Geographic Information. Ashgate Research Companion on Geographies of Media (P. Adams, J. Craine & J. Dittmer eds.) Graham, M. and M. Zook. (2013). Augmented realities and uneven geographies:  Exploring the geolinguistic contours of the Web. Environment and Planning A. 45 (1), 77-99. DOI:10.1068/a44674. Awarded the Ashby Prize by Environment and Planning A for the most innovative paper of 2013. Graham, M, Zook, M. and A. Boulton. 2013. Augmented Reality in the Urban Environment: Distorted Mirrors and Imagined Reflections. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Vol. 38(3), 464–479.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00539.x Shelton, T, Zook, M. and M. Graham. 2012. The Technology of Religion: Mapping Religious Cyberscapes. Professional Geographer. 64(4) 602-617. DOI:10.1080/00330124.2011.614571    The Floatingsheep blog is an ongoing effort  to explore some of the less serious sides of big geosocial media data.  Joint effort with the FloatingSheep Collective - Dr. Mark Graham (Oxford Internet Institute), Ate Poorthuis (University of Kentucky), Taylor Shelton (Clark University) and Dr. Monica Stevens (University of Buffalo). www.floatingsheep.org   Church versus Beer DOLLY = (Data On Local Life and You) • One of the key challenges we spent time on was optimizing systems to collect and store geotagged social media. • Using funding the VP for Research, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Geography we developed DOLLY • DOLLY = every geotagged tweet in the world since July 2012 (9+ billion tweets) Stream Workers Process Workers Front End Built on top of Node.JS Post-processing Arc, R, Illustrator,  Google API, TileMill DOLLY = (Data On Local Life and You) Or other  geosocial media Ate Poorthuis DOLLY Interface (alpha version) http://www.floatingsheep.org/p/dolly.html Can search  by location, time, keyword, hashtag, username, etc. Sharing Data, Collaborating on Research Bryan Schaefer, University of S. California Social Media to Locate Urban Displacement in the City of Los Angeles “tweets consisting of words related to displacement [Starbucks, hipster] were… located in census tracts of Los Angeles that are going through or just finished revitalization projects did contain such tweets.  … In other words, the VGI Method detected a signal for potential displacement Dr. Jay Christian, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky Ecological analysis of fast food tweets in relation to BRFSS data on diet and weight  Accepted for presentation at APHA (American Public Health Association) conference To explore the potential for using Twitter data to track health-related behaviors, we calculated the rate of geo-located tweets mentioning well-known fast food chains for each state in the U.S., then compared these rates to the proportion overweight, and the average number of fruit and vegetable servings consumed per day, by respondents to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).  We also conducted a parallel intra-state analysis using 41 regions of Kentucky developed specifically for aggregating BRFSS data.  The results of this study demonstrate that residents of U.S. states and regions of Kentucky with higher rates of fast food tweets consumed fewer fruit and vegetable servings per day on average (r=-0.52, p<0.0001; rho=-0.59, p=0.0001; respectively).  These results suggest Twitter data might be useful for tracking health behaviors related to chronic disease Dr. Jay Christian, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky Dr. Jay Christian, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky Dr. Nathan Jacobs, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Kentucky Using Twitter to Aid Outdoor Scene Understanding Goal is to use geo-tagged tweets as a weak form of supervision to train automated algorithms to describe changes in outdoor scenes, from changing weather conditions to human activity.  Aim is to use fully automated machine learning-based methods to find connections  between the images from a static outdoor camera and the material in  the twitterverse. Before and after the snow Temporal distribution of each topics in Twitter Dr. Jin-Kyu Jung. School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington-Bothell Using lessons taken from qualitative GIS and geographic visualization to develop “code clouds” as a technique of visualizing spatial information. Code clouds can depict and visualize analytic codes, or codes identifying key ideas and themes, that are generated through digital qualitative research rather than transforming qualitative forms of data into categories or numbers. Code clouds: Qualitative geovisualization of geotweets Dr. Jin-Kyu Jung. School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington-Bothell Haiyun Ye and Dr. Keith Clarke, Department of Geography, University of Santa Barbara Does Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) after disasters share the time-space structure of other user-contributed Web content? Studying the case of Boston Marathon Bombings in April 2013 to examine whether Twitter postings follow patterns (the donut hole and the long tail) seen in other user-contributed content relating to disasters. Some possible implications  are how social media feeds can act as sensors for disasters and assist in emergency response . Most influenced area Area that has more access to geospatial data Right after the bombing (~15 minutes) Within 15 minutes after the bombing, people started twitting about the “breaking” news, which happened at the “finish” “line”.  Two days later Two days after the bombing: Tweeting about the “arrest” the “suspect”, and “media” have more “news” and “report. Tweets within 15 min of the event Other Projects • Dr. Yuko Aoyama, Clark University: Disasters and Urban Transit in Tokyo • Mobility with the Louisville Metropolitan Area • Access to Ponds and Lakes in New England  The New Mappings Collaboratory is an initiative of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky to promote creativity, excellence, and interaction around emergent mapping technologies.  Working on developing an online graduate program in digital mapping. http://newmaps.as.uky.edu/ Thank you. zook@uky.edu @mattzook floatingsheep.org @floating_sheep 

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