Agile is the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe. The 27th annual conference took place from 4th to 7th June 2024 at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. The theme was “Geographic Information Science for a Sustainable Future”.

Lex presented the following paper:

Comber, A., Kieu, M., Bui, Q.T. and Malleson, N., 2024. Using social media data to identify neighbourhood change. AGILE: GIScience Series, 5, p.20.

Abstract: This paper explore the use social media data from Twitter to capture perceptions of neighbourhood characteristics, in relation to gentrification. It does this by defining a rudimentary lexicon of words associated with gentrification. This was used to calculate gentrification scores for geo-located tweets. These were then interpolated to create the surfaces in to determine spatial and temporal patterns of gentrification. There are a number of limitations to the methods used in this study, which are discussed and a number of related areas of future work are indicated.

The full conference paper is available here