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A Temporal Approach to Defining Place Types Based on User-Contributed Geosocial Content UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title A Temporal Approach to Defining Place Types based on User-Contributed Geosocial Content Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dp7z9bb Author McKenzie, Grant Publication Date 2015 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara A Temporal Approach to Defining Place Types based on User-Contributed Geosocial Content A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography by Grant Donald McKenzie Committee in Charge: Professor Krzystof Janowicz, Co-Chair Professor Martin Raubal, Co-Chair Professor Konstadinos Goulias Professor Andrew Flanagin March 2015 The dissertation of Grant Donald McKenzie is approved: Professor Konstadinos Goulias Professor Andrew Flanagin Professor Martin Raubal, Committee Co-Chairperson Professor Krzystof Janowicz, Committee Co-Chairperson March 2015 A Temporal Approach to Defining Place Types based on User-Contributed Geosocial Content Copyright © 2015 by Grant Donald McKenzie iii To my parents and sister for their love and support iv Acknowledgements As I close the graduate student chapter of my life and finally look up from my laptop, it becomes shockingly apparent how restrictive a single page of acknowl- edgments is. I would like to thank the members of my committee for their input and guid- ance over the years. Though our physical paths diverged early in the doctoral process, Martin did a extraordinary job of continuing to advise, support and pro- vide input on many aspects of my degree, proving that a good advisor is not bounded by physical space. Working with Jano, I found not only an advisor with exceptional drive, but a mentor who was able to inspire creativity even in the darkest depths of the dissertation process. I am still not entirely sure how he was able to do it, but Kostas helped keep to the entire Ph.D. process in perspective while providing invaluable input. I am very thankful for Andrew's perspective on my research. The value of feedback from a researcher outside of one's primary field, especially one as sharp as Andrew cannot be overstated. Being able to work with intelligent and thoughtful colleagues such as those in the STKO lab is truly what has made the last few years of research enjoyable. I am incredibly grateful for all of their help and look forward to many long days and late nights of project work with them in the future. I must also acknowledge some great friends and colleagues I made along the way: Ben, Kate, Mike, Carlos, Burke, as well as the countless graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs and researchers in the Department of Geography. A heartfelt thank you to Sarah who made the entire process bearable, for putting up with me through the doldrums and the gale force winds, words cannot express my gratitude. Last, and most importantly, I would like to thank my parents and sister for their unconditional love and support. They truly provided the foundation on which all of this has been possible. I could honestly never ask for a more caring and supportive family than the one I have. v Curriculum Vitæ Grant Donald McKenzie EDUCATION 2015 Doctor of Philosophy in Geography with an Emphasis in Technol- ogy and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America (Expected) 2008 Master of Applied Science in Geomatic Engineering, The Univer- sity of Melbourne, Australia 2004 Advanced Diploma in Geographic Information Systems, The British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada 2002 Bachelors of Arts in Geography, The University of British Columbia, Canada PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2011 { 2015 Research Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara 2010 { 2013 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara 2011 Visiting Researcher, Institute of Cartography and Geoinforma- tion, ETH Z¨urich 2009 { 2015 Geospatial Technologist, Spatial Development International 2008 { 2010 Geospatial Technologist, Private Consulting vi 2008 { 2009 Geospatial Software Developer, CH2M Hill PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings & Book Chapters Adams, B., McKenzie, G., Gahegan, M. (Accepted) Frankenplace: Interactive the- matic mapping for ad hoc exploratory search. The 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015). (May 18-22, Florence, Italy) McKenzie, G., Klippel, A., (In Press) The Interaction of Landmarks and Map Align- ment in You-Are-Here Maps. The Cartographic Journal. Maney Press. McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Gao, S., Yang, J., .Hu, Y., (In Press) POI Pulse: A Multi-Granular, Semantic Signatures-Based Information Observatory for the Interactive Visualization of Big Geosocial Data. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. University of Toronto Press. Savage, S. Forbes, A., Toxtli, C., McKenzie, G., Desai, S. M., Hollerer, T. (2014) Vi- sual Analysis of Targeted Audiences. The 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (May 27-30, Nice, France) McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Adams, B. (2014) A Weighted Multi-Attribute Method for Matching User-Generated Points of Interest. Cartography and Geographic Informa- tion Science. 41(2) pp 125-137 Taylor & Francis McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Adams, B. (2013) Weighted Multi-Attribute Matching of User-Generated Points of Interest. Proceedings of The 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL In- vii ternational Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (Short Paper). pp 440-443 (November 5-8, Orlando, FL) Gau, S., Hu, Y., Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G., (2013) A Spatiotemporal Sciento- metrics Framework for Exploring the Citation Impact of Publications and Scientists. Proceedings of The 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pp 204-213 (November 5-8, Orlando, FL) Hu, Y., Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G., Sengupta, K., Hitzler, P. (2013) A Linked Data- driven Semantically-enabled Journal Portal for Scientometrics. The 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC '13) pp 114-129 (October 21-25, Sydney, Australia) McKenzie, G., Adams, B., Janowicz, K. (2013) A Thematic Approach to User Simi- larity Built on Geosocial Check-ins. In Proceedings of the 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE '13 pp 39-54 (May 14-17, Leuven, Belgium) Adams, B. and McKenzie, G. (2012) Inferring Thematic Places from Spatially Refer- enced Natural Language Descriptions. In: D. Sui, S. Elwood, and M. Goodchild (Eds.), Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge, pp 201-221. Springer Refereed Extended Abstracts & Demonstration Papers McKenzie, G. (Accepted) The pretense of residential privacy in geosocial networking data. International Conference on Location-Based Social Media Data. (March 13-14, Athens, GA) viii Gong, L., Gao, S., McKenzie, G. (Accepted) POI Type Matching based on Culturally Different Datasets. International Conference on Location-Based Social Media Data. (March 13-14, Athens, GA) McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. (2014) Coerced Geographic Information: The not-so- voluntary side of user-generated geo-content. Extended Abstracts of the 8th Interna- tional Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience '14), Vienna, Austria. Gao, S., Yang, J-A., Yan, B., Hu, Y., Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G. (2014) Detect- ing Origin-Destination Mobility Flows From Geotagged Tweets in Greater Los Angeles Area. Extended Abstracts of the 8th International Conference on Geographic Informa- tion Science (GIScience '14), Vienna, Austria. McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. (2014) Activities in a New City: Itinerary Recommen- dation Based on User Similarity. Spatial Knowledge and Information (SKI) - Canada (Feb 7-9, Banff, AB) McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Hu, Y., Sengupta, K., Hitzler, P. (2013) Linked Scien- tometrics: Designing Interactive Scientometrics with Linked Data and Semantic Web Reasoning. The 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC '13) (Demonstra- tion Paper) Sydney, Australia Adams, B. and McKenzie, G. (2012) Frankenplace: An Application for Similarity- Based Place Search. The 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) (Demonstration Paper) (June 4-7, Dublin, Ireland) AAAI Press ix McKenzie, G. and Raubal, M. (2012) Ground-truthing spatial activities through on- line social networking data. Extended Abstracts of the 7th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience '12) Columbus, OH. Hu, Y., Li, W., Janowicz, K., Deutsch, K., McKenzie, G., Goulias, K. (2012) Us- ing spatial-temporal signatures to infer human activities from personal trajectories on location-enabled mobile devices. Extended Abstracts of the 7th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience '12), Columbus, OH. McKenzie, G., Raubal, M. (2011) Adding social constraints to location based services. Extended Abstracts of the 8th Symposium on Location-Based Services. (November 21-23, Vienna, Austria) Refereed Workshop Proceedings Janowicz, K., Adams, B., McKenzie, G., Kauppinen, T., (2014) Towards Geographic Information Observatories. Proceedings of Workshop on Geographic Information Ob- servatories at the Eight International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIO @ GIScience '14), (September 23, Vienna, Austria) Hu, Y., McKenzie, G., Yang, J., Gao, S., Abdalla, A., Janowicz, K., (2014) A Linked- Data-Driven Web Portal for Learning Analytics: Data Enrichment, Interactive Visu- alization,
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