GEOG 105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Citizen Science, Locative Media, Telecommuting
6 May 2018
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Final Exam Review
Terms and concepts to know from the last part of the semester:
1. The basic definition of "big data"
a. Data sets so large they are beyond the capabilities of widely used software to process,
manage, and even capture in an acceptable amount of time
2. The four Vs of big data
a. Volume
b. Variety
c. Velocity
d. Veracity
3. What does it mean to say that data is produced and not collected?
a. There is always a person behind the dataset who manipulated the information collected
to produce that certain outcome
4. What makes a place "urban"?
a. Non-rural, non-agricultural
b. Decision-making capacity
c. Social heterogeneity
d. High density (specialization) – Concentration of materials, people, ideas
e. n # of people in one place
5. What are some of the ways that cities still matter with the increasing use of ICTs?
a. Demand for ICTs is driven by cities
i. New ways of interacting with cities
ii. Apps, high-speed connections
b. Politics and policy influence ICTs, vice versa
c. ICTs need physical infrastructure
6. Locative media and the four main types of it
a. New Media, Turning Location into Place
b. 4 main types –
i. Urban electronic annotations - Writig i spae or o the ladsape
ii. Mapping and tracking – Geotagging photos, tweets, etc.
iii. Location-based mobile games – Foursquare, Facebook, etc.
iv. Filtering devices – Geofencing
7. What are some of the ways that the tech economy is affecting life in the cities in which its
workers are based (i.e., San Francisco and the Bay Area)?
8. Three approaches to social science and the kinds of questions and methods each approach
tends to use or ask
a. Quantitative Approach
i. Mathematical, statistical analysis
ii. Spatial analysis, multiple regression (different methods)
b. Qualitative Approach
i. Ho do people uderstad ad eperiee the orld the’re i?
ii. How do researchers make meaning?
iii. Methods – interviews, participant observation
c. Critical Approach
i. What power relations are structuring the processes we see?
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ii. How are inequalities developed and reproduced?
iii. Quantitative or qualitative methods
9. Why are cities increasingly important for sustainability?
a. Majorit of orld’s populatio
b. Even higher % of energy use and economic activity
c. City = closest level of government to the people
d. Atig o liate hage he atioal goerets o’t
e. Control over aspects of planning and utilities
10. What are some of the proles ith the urret push for sustaiale ad sart ities?
a. Social inequality (two scales)
b. Possile greeashig or BAU
i. Greenwashing = superficial actions in name
c. Unknown or contradictory results
11. What effects did Pokémon Go have on how and where people in Santiago, Chile, spent their
time in the city?
12. Accessibility vs. mobility
a. Accessibility
i. Ability to move or get to a place
ii. Usually goal of transportation engineers
iii. Increased by new infrastructure, ICTS (improve mobility, give info), lower
transportation (more people able to afford = more traveling)
b. Mobility
i. Ability to get to things you need (goods, services, job, fun, friends, etc.)
ii. Usually goal for planners
iii. Increased by land use planning, ICTs, or increased mobility
13. ICTs and travel: substitution vs. complementarity vs. generation
a. Substitution
i. Telecommuting, skyping, etc.
ii. The naïve ideal, but not generally true
b. Complementarity
i. Better informed about trips you make
ii. Gather info and then go
c. Generation
i. More places to go, people to meet
ii. Face-to-face becomes even more valuable
14. VGI and citizen science
a. VGI
i. Geographic data by non-geographers
ii. Community mapping, web mapping
iii. Differet fro itize siee / it does’t hae to e aout a speifi projet
iv. Humans as sensors
b. Citizen Science
i. Networks of amateurs (trained and/or skilled)
ii. Scientific work done by the public
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