Clio Andris: Enriching Points of Interest (PoI) Data with Information about Social Relationships, Visitor Diversity, and Chainness
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Jackson Street Bridge, Atlanta. image / Joey Kyber on Unsplash
Abstract
A point of interest (POI) can be described as a set of coordinates that signify a location or landmark, including food services, health facilities, education facilities, and entertainment venues. City and regional planners use POI data to capture amenities in local areas, assess design plans, measure an area's economic health, learn about change over time, and visualize sites on maps. Geolocated POI data is sourced from places such as the Yellow Pages, OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yelp, and government registries of businesses. With advancements such as crowdsourced reviews, mobility data, and text analysis methods, we can enrich POI data with information that reflects the value and role of POIs.
Biography
Clio Andris is an associate professor in the School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Her background is in geographic information science (GIScience). Her research group, the Friendly Cities Lab, conducts research on spatial social networks, data-driven urban planning methods, and geovisualization and is affiliated with the Information Visualization Lab at Georgia Tech. She serves as the director of the Master of Geographic Information Science and Technology (MS–GIST) degree program in the School of City and Regional Planning, and she serves on the U.S. National Geospatial Advisory Committee.
