Social Media Data Gathering and Processing
The rapid advances in information and communication technology (ICT) are rapidly integrating with the built environment, resulting in the emergence of new urban science manifesting as a new infrastructure of sensing, data gathering, and urbanism analysis. Point of Interests (POIs) is a significant type of social media data, it provides finer-grained information of urban land use and vitality.
In this micromodule, you will learn how to obtain, filter and input POIs into QGIS based on Google Place API.
In the first part, this tutorial shows how to employ APIFY to automatically obtained selected functions of POIs in the selected research area, the output .csv file includes geo-location of POIs, review scores distribution, popular time and addresses.
In the second part, this tutorial introduces how to input .csv and filter POIs in the selected area through the ‘clip’ function.