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View article: Not so ‘placeless’ after all. Understanding the spatial implications of the digital economy
Not so ‘placeless’ after all. Understanding the spatial implications of the digital economy Open
Empirical studies on the geography of digital economic activities are currently lacking. This is due to digital economic activities remaining largely undefined in official economic statistics. This paper introduces a novel empirical pipeli…
View article: Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds
Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds Open
The discussion about the productivity gains from digital technologies is almost as old as digital technologies themselves. From early futuristic approaches to the various forms of the productivity paradox, there are still open questions re…
View article: A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web
A multi-scale story of the diffusion of a new technology: the Web Open
This article investigates the spatial diffusion of a new technology that is the Web in the UK. It employs novel data and machine learning methods to model the influence of well-established diffusion mechanisms. Contrary to previous studies…
View article: Gambling: A Story of Remarkable Stability in Fast-Changing High Streets
Gambling: A Story of Remarkable Stability in Fast-Changing High Streets Open
High streets, the main commercial streets in towns and cities, have undergone significant transformations due to the evolving urban retail landscape. Despite these changes, this study demonstrates that the presence of gambling venues in Gr…
View article: Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data
Assessing geographic polarisation in Britain’s digital landscape through stable dynamic embedding of spatial web data Open
This paper employs Unfolded Adjacency Spectral Embedding (UASE) to investigate the temporal evolution of economic relationships between locations in Great Britain. We utilise timestamped, geolocated website hyperlinks data between archived…
View article: Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds
Fast and furious: the productivity effects of the geography of experienced internet speeds Open
The discussion about the productivity gains from digital technologies is almost as old as digital technologies themselves. From early futuristic approaches to the various forms of the productivity paradox, there are still open questions re…
View article: The inextricable nature of space and economy
The inextricable nature of space and economy Open
Space has always been essential within the economy, yet its importance in economics has been downplayed in several ways. This editorial introduces the seven papers comprising this issue of Spatial Economic Analysis (SEA) and shows that whi…
View article: Where Is the Geography? A Study of the Predictors of Obesity Using UK Biobank Data and Machine Learning
Where Is the Geography? A Study of the Predictors of Obesity Using UK Biobank Data and Machine Learning Open
In this study, we adopted individual baseline data from the UK Biobank cohort of participants aged 40–69 across the UK to explore whether there is evidence of the geography related to health disparities in obesity. First, we used multileve…
View article: Occupational segregation in the digital economy? A Natural Language Processing approach using UK Web Data
Occupational segregation in the digital economy? A Natural Language Processing approach using UK Web Data Open
This paper investigates whether and how occupational segregation affects the digital economy. Despite the continuous growth of entrepreneurial activity in the digital, little is known about the demographic characteristics of people activel…
View article: Measuring a country’s digital industrial structure: commercial websites and weakly supervised classification to the rescue
Measuring a country’s digital industrial structure: commercial websites and weakly supervised classification to the rescue Open
In this paper we propose the use of commercial websites and a contextualized weak supervision framework as an alternative to industrial taxonomies to identify and classify digital industrial activity. Despite the crucial importance of indu…
View article: Using the Web to Predict Regional Trade Flows: Data Extraction, Modeling, and Validation
Using the Web to Predict Regional Trade Flows: Data Extraction, Modeling, and Validation Open
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View article: Using the web to predict regional trade flows: data extraction, modelling, and validation
Using the web to predict regional trade flows: data extraction, modelling, and validation Open
Despite the importance of interregional trade for building effective regional economic policies, there is very little hard data to illustrate such interdependencies. We propose here a novel research framework to predict interregional trade…
View article: Modeling clusters from the ground up: A web data approach
Modeling clusters from the ground up: A web data approach Open
This paper proposes a new methodological framework to identify economic clusters over space and time. We employ a unique open source dataset of geolocated and archived business webpages and interrogate them using Natural Language Processin…
View article: Working from Home and Digital Divides: Resilience during the Pandemic
Working from Home and Digital Divides: Resilience during the Pandemic Open
This article offers a new perspective on telecommuting from the viewpoint of the complex web of digital divides. Using the United Kingdom as a case study, this article studies how the quality and reliability of Internet services, as reflec…
View article: Modelling Clusters From The Ground Up: A Web Data Approach
Modelling Clusters From The Ground Up: A Web Data Approach Open
This paper proposes a new methodological framework to identify economic clusters over space and time. We employ a unique open source dataset of geolocated and archived business webpages and interrogate them using Natural Language Processin…
View article: The role of space, time and sociability in predicting social encounters
The role of space, time and sociability in predicting social encounters Open
Space, time and the social realm are intrinsically linked. While an array of studies have tried to untangle these factors and their influence on human behaviour, hardly any have taken their effects into account at the same time. To disenta…
View article: Ubiquitous digital technologies and spatial structure; an update
Ubiquitous digital technologies and spatial structure; an update Open
This paper examines the impact of widespread adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) on urban structure worldwide. Has it offset agglomeration benefits and led to more dispersed spatial structures, or has it strengthen…
View article: Detecting urban structure through inter-city human interactions in China
Detecting urban structure through inter-city human interactions in China Open
We combine novel inter-city human interaction data with traditional node attribute data to explore how the Chinese urban network is structured, and how this is associated with the economic performance of cities in an increasingly urbanisin…
View article: Ubiquitous Digital Technologies and Spatial Structure; an update
Ubiquitous Digital Technologies and Spatial Structure; an update Open
This is the data set required to reproduce Tranos and Ioannides (2021). The code and more information can be found in https://github.com/etranos/ict.un.us.uk. The paper can be found in https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248982
View article: Ubiquitous Digital Technologies and Spatial Structure; an update
Ubiquitous Digital Technologies and Spatial Structure; an update Open
This is the data set required to reproduce Tranos and Ioannides (2021). The code and more information can be found in https://github.com/etranos/ict.un.us.uk. The paper can be found in https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248982
View article: Working from Home and Digital Divides: Resilience during the Pandemic
Working from Home and Digital Divides: Resilience during the Pandemic Open
This article offers a new perspective on telecommuting from the viewpoint of the complex web of digital divides. Using the United Kingdom as a case study, this article studies how the quality and reliability of Internet services, as reflec…
View article: Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption
Digital economy in the UK: regional productivity effects of early adoption Open
Whilst the importance of internet-related technologies and digitization practices to economic performance is well documented, little is known about the long-term effects of the early adoption of such technologies. We use novel, geolocated …
View article: Using ‘Big Data’ to understand the impacts of Uber on taxis in New York City
Using ‘Big Data’ to understand the impacts of Uber on taxis in New York City Open
Uber has coupled their ability to dodge regulation with their ride-haling app, togrow from a Silicon Valley start-up, to a global powerhouse challenging establishedtaxis in over 700 Metropolitan areas. Through the lens of Schumpter’s ‘Crea…
View article: Quantitative geography III: Future challenges and challenging futures
Quantitative geography III: Future challenges and challenging futures Open
In the previous two reports in this series, we discussed the history and current status of quantitative geography. In this final report, we focus on the future. We argue that quantitative geographers are most helpful when we can simplify d…
View article: Social Network Sites and Knowledge Transfer: An Urban Perspective
Social Network Sites and Knowledge Transfer: An Urban Perspective Open
This article surveys the literature to explore whether and how internet technologies and applications such as social network sites (SNS) support social interactions and, through them, knowledge transfers at different spatial scales and set…