Urban*: Crowdsourcing for the good of London

@danielequercia

Situation

75% in USA (already!)

plus 1.2B by 2025 in USA

plus 5M /month in developing

Problem

Inequality!

Solution

$Timely allocation of scarce resources

r=.350 word count r=.365 MaxEnt

predicting socioeconomic well-being with twitter

social media environment sports health Royal wedding

Spanish/Portuguesecelebrity gossips

Talk of the City [ICWSM’12]

well-off deprived

Visibility

visibility & well-being

WWW Game!

WEIRD trap!Few hundreds of WEIRDosWhite,Educated,Industrialized,Rich, and Democratic undergraduates

launched few months ago > 2K players

Regions

Boroughs

Vibility vs. Exposure

Distinctiveness(e.g., interesting architecture)Area more visibile than exposure would suggest