Creating Cultural Signatures of Urban Areas with Geolocated Establishments on the Web

• Fernanda R. Gubert UTFPR
• Gustavo H. Santos UTFPR
• Myriam Delgado UTFPR
• Daniel Silver University of Toronto
• Thiago H. Silva UTFPR

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/courb.2024.3260

Abstract

Knowledge about the characteristics of different cultural groups that exist in the world and the identification of cultural similarities between their respective areas of occupation can bring several economic and social benefits, such as recommending locations based on cultural criteria. However, much of the research in this domain relies on traditional methods, which are costly and lack scalability. Therefore, this work focuses on extracting pertinent features of urban areas using geolocated data from web sources. Subsequently, a methodology is applied to augment this collected data, generating thereby a cultural profile of urban areas. In practical terms, the outcomes exhibit consistency, as evidenced by the delineation of Curitiba’s neighborhoods into culturally distinct clusters.

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