| Day of Week | Hour | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 14:00 - 16:00 | Room FIB I-LAB |
| Friday | 11:00 - 13:00 | Room FIB I-LAB |
The lectures will be only in person and will NOT be live-streamed
The analysis of geographic information, such as those describing human movements, is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society, such as disease spreading (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic), urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. This course will teach the fundamental concepts and techniques underlying the analysis of geographic and mobility data, presenting data sources (e.g., mobile phone records, GPS traces, geotagged social media posts), data preprocessing techniques, statistical patterns, predicting and generative algorithms, and real-world applications (e.g., diffusion of epidemics, socio-demographics, link prediction in social networks). The course will also provide a practical perspective through the use of advanced geoanalytics Python libraries.
The assessment of the course consists of an oral exam, aimed to test the knowledge acquired by the student during the course.
Topics:
On Friday, October 16th, there will be no lesson (because of UnipiOrienta).
| Day | Topic | Slides/Code | Material | Teacher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 18/09, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Introduction to the Course | [Slides] About the course Introduction to Geospatial Analytics and Human Mobility | [book chapter] Introduction to geographic information systems, Chapter 1; [paper] Human Mobility: Models and Applications, Section 1 | L. Pappalardo, M. Nanni, G. Mauro |
| 2. | 21/09, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Fundamental Concepts - Part I | [Slides] Fundamental concepts Part I | [book chapter] Introduction to geographic information systems, Chapter 2 (Coordinate Systems); [video] Intro to coordinate systems and UTM projection; | L. Pappalardo |
| 3. | 25/09, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Fundamental Concepts II | [Slides] Fundamental Concepts Part II | [paper] A survey of deep learning for human mobility, Section 2.1, Appendix A; | L. Pappalardo |
| 4. | 28/09, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Practical session on Fundamental Concepts | [code] Notebook | G. Mauro | |
| 5. | 02/10, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Spatial Data Analysis I | [slides] Spatial Data Analysis I | Main material: [Lecture notes] Elements of spatial data representation and analysis Sect. 1-3, Complementary material: [book chapter] Introduction to geographic information systems, Sect. 3.1, 3.3, 4.1-4.3, 4.7, 8.5, Chapter 11; [book chapter] Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis, Chapter 11, 13; [book section] Encyclopedia of GIS: Geary’s C | M. Nanni |
| 6. | 05/10, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Spatial Data Analysis II | [slides] Spatial Data Analysis II | Main material: [Lecture notes] Elements of spatial data representation and analysis Sect. 4-6, Complementary material: [book chapter] Introduction to geographic information systems, Chapter 15; [book chapter] Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis, Chapter 14; [paper] Spatial co-location patterns, Sect. 3.1 | M. Nanni |
| 7. | 09/10, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Practical session on Spatial Data Analysis | [code] Notebook | G. Mauro | |
| 8. | 12/10, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Mobility Data I | [slides] Mobility Data I | [paper] A survey of deep learning for human mobility , Appendix C.1, C.2, C.3; | L. Pappalardo |
| - | 16/10 | NO LESSON (for Unipi-Orienta) | |||
| 9. | 19/10, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Mobility Data II | [slides] Mobility data II | [paper] Evaluation of home detection algorithms on mobile phone data using individual-level ground truth , Section 1 “Introduction”, Section 2 “Mobile phone datasets”; [paper] A survey of results on mobile phone datasets analysis , Section 1 “Introduction”, Section 3 “Adding space - geographical networks”; | L. Pappalardo |
| 10. | 23/10, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Practical session on Mobility Data | G. Mauro | ||
| 11. | 26/10, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Preprocessing I | M. Nanni | ||
| 12. | 30/10, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Preprocessing II | M. Nanni | ||
| 13. | 06/11, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Individual Mobility Laws I | L. Pappalardo | ||
| 14. | 09/11, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Practical session on Preprocessing | G. Mauro | ||
| 15. | 13/11, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Individual Mobility Laws II | L. Pappalardo | ||
| 16. | 16/11, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Mobility Models I | G. Mauro | ||
| 17. | 20/11, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Mobility Models II | G. Mauro | ||
| 18. | 23/11, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Practical session on Mobility Laws and Models | G. Mauro | ||
| 19. | 27/11, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Mobility Pattern Mining I | M. Nanni | ||
| 20. | 30/11, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Mobility Pattern Mining II | M. Nanni | ||
| 21. | 04/12, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Next-location prediction | M. Nanni | ||
| 22. | 11/12, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Impact of preprocessing on next-location prediction | K. Smolak | ||
| 23. | 14/12, 11:00-13:00, FIB I-LAB | Practical session on Mobility Pattern Mining and Next-location Prediction | G. Mauro | ||
| 24. | 18/12, 14:00-16:00, FIB I-LAB | Location-based recommender systems | G. Mauro |