Publications
2021
Applying machine learning and geolocation techniques to social media data (Twitter) to develop a resource for urban planning
Milusheva, Sveta, Robert Marty, Guadalupe Bedoya, Sarah Williams, Elizabeth Resor, and Arianna Legovini
PLoS ONE
2020
2020
Can crowdsourcing create the missing crash data?
S Milusheva, R Marty, G Bedoya, E Resor, S Williams, A Legovini
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
2020
Applying Machine Learning and Geolocation Techniques to Social Media Data (Twitter) to Develop a Resource for Urban Planning
Sveta Milusheva, Robert Marty, Guadalupe Bedoya, Sarah Williams, Elizabeth Resor, Arianna Legovini
The World Bank
2019
Smart and Safe Kenya Transport (SMARTTRANS)
G Bedoya Arguelles, SP Milusheva, A Legovini, SE Williams
The World Bank
2019
Ghost cities of China: Identifying urban vacancy through social media data
S Williams, W Xu, SB Tan, MJ Foster, C Chen
Cities 94, 275-285
2019
Evaluating sensors for the measurement of public life: A future in image processing
S Williams, C Ahn, H Gunc, E Ozgirin, M Pearce, Z Xiong
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 46 (8), 1534-1548
2019
Commuting for women in Saudi Arabia: Metro to driving-Options to support women employment
S Williams, W Qiu, Z Al-awwad, A Alfayez
Journal of Transport Geography 77, 126-138
2019
2017
Understanding Gendered Spaces Using Social Media Data
A Alfayez, Z Awwad, C Kerr, N Alrashed, S Williams, A Al-Wabil
International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, 338-356
2017
Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi
J Klopp, D Orwa, P Waiganjo Wagacha, S Williams, A White
Field Actions Science Reports. The journal of field actions, 39-43
2017
Informal 2.0: Seeing and improving urban informal practices through digital technologies the digital matatus case in Nairobi
SE Williams
Institut Veolia Environnement
2017
Benchmark: using sensors to study public space
MA Giampieri, S Williams, W Xu, H Gunc, CM Langston, DC Harvey
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings
2016
Data Visualizations Break Down Knowledge Barriers in Public Engagement
S Williams
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
2016
Digital neighborhoods
L Anselin, S Williams
Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability
2016
Towards Urban Tribes in Saudi Arabia: Social Subcultures Emerging from Urban Analytics of Social Media
Tariq Alhindi, Salma Aldawood, Jumana Almahmoud, Carlos Sandoval, Areej Al-Wabil, Mansour Alsaleh, Sarah Williams
International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, 258-266
2016
The lottery is a mathematics powerball
V Lim, L Rubel, L Shookhoff, M Sullivan, S Williams
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 21 (9), 526-532
2016
The responsive city: The city of the future re-imagined from the bottom up
S Williams
Emergent Urbanism: Urban Planning & Design in Times of Structural and Systemic Change
2015
The digital matatu project: Using cell phones to create an open source data for Nairobi's semi-formal bus system
S Williams, A White, P Waiganjo, D Orwa, J Klopp
Journal of Transport Geography 49, 39-51
2015
Leveraging cellphones for wayfinding and journey planning in semi-formal bus systems: Lessons from digital matatus in Nairobi
J Klopp, S Williams, P Waiganjo, D Orwa, A White
Planning support systems and smart cities, 227-241
2015
The digital matatu project: Using cell phones to create an open source data for Nairobi's semi-formal bus system
A White, P Waiganjo, D Orwa, J Klopp, SE Williams
Elsevier
2015
Local Lotto: Mathematics and mobile technology to study the lottery
V Lim, E Deahl, L Rubel, S Williams
Cases on technology integration in mathematics education, 43-67
2015
2015
2015
Maps, Mobile Tools, and Media Boards: Digital Technologies for Learning About Pawnshops
L Rubel, V Lim, M Hall-Wieckert, S Williams
International Society of the Learning Sciences
International Society of the Learning Sciences
2014
Industry in motion: using smart phones to explore the spatial network of the garment industry in New York City
S Williams, E Currid-Halkett
PloS one 9 (2), e86165
2014
Toward open source Kenya: Creating and sharing a GIS database of Nairobi
S Williams, E Marcello, JM Klopp
Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104 (1), 114-130
2014
Towards a Standard for Paratransit Data: Lessons from Developing GTFS Data for Nairobi's Matatu System
J Klopp, J Mutua, D Orwa, P Waiganjo, A White, S Williams
Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board
2014
City Digits: Local Lotto: Developing Youth Data Literacy by Investigating the Lottery
S Williams, E Deahl, L Rubel, V Lim
Journal of Digital Media Literacy
2014
Toward Open Source Kenya: Creating and Sharing a GIS Database of Nairobi
E Marcello, JM Klopp, SE Williams
Taylor & Francis
2012
Here Now!: Social Media and the Psychological City
S Williams
Inscribing a Square - Urban Data as Public Space, edited by Katja Schechtner and Dietmar Offenhuber, Springer
2011
The emergence of Los Angeles as a fashion hub: a comparative spatial analysis of the New York and Los Angeles fashion industries
S Williams, E Currid-Halkett
Urban Studies 48 (14), 3043-3066
2010
The geography of buzz: art, culture and the social milieu in Los Angeles and New York
E Currid, S Williams
Journal of Economic Geography 10 (3), 423-451
2010
Two cities, five industries: Similarities and differences within and between cultural industries in New York and Los Angeles
E Currid, S Williams
Journal of Planning Education and Research 29 (3), 322-335
2006
Mobile landscapes: using location data from cell phones for urban analysis
C Ratti, D Frenchman, RM Pulselli, S Williams
Environment and planning B: Planning and design 33 (5), 727-748
2005
Understanding urban assets: using remote sensing to manage stormwater run-off
SE Williams
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005
Mobile landscapes
C Ratti, RM Pulselli, S Williams, D Frenchman
Environment and Planning B–Planning and Design
2003
Evolving metadata needs for an institutional repository: MIT's DSpace
M Branschofsky, R Lubas, MK Smith, S Williams
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 237-238