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Sentiment analysis using a lexicon-based approach in Lisbon, Portugal
Betco, Iuria; Ribeiro, Ana Isabel; Vale, David S.; Encalada Abarca, Luis; Viana, Cláudia M.; Rocha, JorgeAdvances in digital sensors and Information flow have created an abundance of data generated by users under various emotional states in different situations. Although this opens up a new facet in spatial research, the large amount of data makes it difficult to analyze and obtain complete and comprehensive information leading to an increase in the demand for sentiment analysis. In this study, the Canadian Nation...
Identifying pharmacy gaps: a spatiotemporal study of multimodal accessibility t...
Viana, Cláudia M.; Encalada Abarca, Luis; Rocha, Jorge; Vale, David S.Background Accessibility to community pharmacies is crucial for ensuring timely access to medications and essen‑ tial health services. While accessibility to community pharmacies is critical, disparities driven by temporal and spatial factors persist, resulting in inequities in healthcare access. This study aims to comprehensively assess spatiotemporal and multimodal accessibility to community pharmacies in Lis...
Internal report with descriptive spatial analysis and calculated accessibility ...
Encalada Abarca, Luis; Marques da Costa, Eduarda; Marques Da Costa, Nuno; Louro, AnaThe concept of the 15-minute city emphasizes the importance of ensuring residents can efficiently access essential urban amenities within a short distance. This includes healthcare, education, leisure, and other daily services that significantly enhance quality of life, particularly for vulnerable groups such as the elderly and children. A toolkit has been developed to assess accessibility to urban amenities, p...
Tourism planning as a social practice in times of change and uncertainty: views...
Ricaurte-Quijano, Carla; Pécot, Mathias; Veintimilla-Mariño, Cinthy; Encalada Abarca, Luis; Guayaquil, Diana; Bauz, Sergio; Pambabay, JohnyTourism planning is seen as a ‘steering wheel’ to leverage growth, development or economic transitions during times of adversity and rapid change. Given the limited capacities within the public sector, consultants play a crucial role in tourism planning efforts in Ecuador. Drawing from practice theory and tourism planning research, we examined tourism planning practices among 46 consultants contracted by public...
A pegada digital na análise de padrões turísticos em contexto urbano
Encalada Abarca, LuisExplorando a(s) geografia(s) do turismo, esta tese parte de dois pensamentos iniciais, que são alvos constantes do debate académico em geografia e de reflexões diversas nos estudos interdisciplinares de ambientes urbanos, mas cuja discussão não pressupõe um consenso na investigação. Por um lado, como pode ser formalizado o senso de complexidade de um lugar (e.g., o destino turístico) através do conhecimento geo...
Measuring tourism intensification in urban destinations: an approach based on f...
Encalada Abarca, Luis; Ferreira, Carlos Cardoso; Rocha, JorgeThis article provides an approach to the geographic and quantitative interpretation of tourism intensification, drawing on the concepts of fractals, and fractal dimension (D). Exploring tourism intensification in Lisbon, we first present a geographic construct that represents the spatial layout of tourism based on crowd-contributed spatial signatures advocating a collective sense of the “tourist city”. Then, we...
Using Twitter to assess the influence of urban environment on well-being in Lis...
Betco, Iuria; Encalada Abarca, Luis; Ribeiro, Ana I.; Vale, David S.; Rocha, JorgeThe shape and morphology of the city can be determinants of well-being, and it is essential to determine which factors can contribute to achieving this objective, in order to design the city in this sense. The transformation of urban space, simultaneously with the digitization of society, enables knowledge about how much individual well-being is influenced by the surrounding built environment. The content gener...
Crowdsourcing Of Covid-19 Symptoms Map In Ecuadorians
Ching-Ávalos, Siuling; Jaramillo-Lindao, Yadira; Velastegui-Montoya, Andrés; Encalada Abarca, Luis; Chang-Silva, Roberto; Mosquera-Romero, MayteThe COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected the city of Guayaquil. The complex dynamics associated with the geography of SARS-CoV-2 made it difficult to monitore the spread of COVID-19 in Ecuador. Data collection and reporting were, in most cases, some of the main obstacles to understanding the (realtime) situation of COVID-19 outbreak. This study presents a crowdsourcing initiative to complement data collecti...
A importância do espaço urbano para o sentimento: análise baseada em redes sociais
Betco, Iuria; Encalada Abarca, Luis; Rocha, J.Recentemente, tem-se verificado um despertar do interesse pela importância da qualidade do espaço no suporte à vida saudável (estilo de vida saudável) em áreas urbanas. As ligações entre o espaço e a saúde foram reconhecidas ao longo da história, tendo sido uma das forças motrizes do movimento dos parques urbanos no século XIX na Europa e na América do Norte. No entanto, muitos dos mecanismos por detrás dessas ...
A importância do espaço urbano para o sentimento: análise baseada em redes sociais
Betco, Iuria; Encalada Abarca, Luis; Rocha, JorgeRecentemente, tem-se verificado um despertar do interesse pela importância da qualidade do espaço no suporte à vida saudável (estilo de vida saudável) em áreas urbanas. As ligações entre o espaço e a saúde foram reconhecidas ao longo da história, tendo sido uma das forças motrizes do movimento dos parques urbanos no século XIX na Europa e na América do Norte. No entanto, muitos dos mecanismos por detrás dessas ...