RT Journal Article
T1 The Rio Olympic Games: A Look into City Dynamics through the Lens of Twitter Data
A1 Condeço Melhorado, Ana Margarida
A1 Mohino, Inmaculada
A1 Moya Gómez, Borja
A1 García Palomares, Juan Carlos
AB The Olympic Games have a huge impact on the cities where they are held, both during the actual celebration of the event, and before and after it. This study presents a new approach based on spatial analysis, GIS, and data coming from Location-Based Social Networks to model the spatiotemporal dimension of impacts associated with the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Geolocalized data from Twitter are used to analyze the activity pattern of users from two different viewpoints. The first monitors the activity of Twitter users during the event—The arrival of visitors, where they came from, and the use which residents and tourists made of different areas of the city. The second assesses the spatiotemporal use of the city by Twitter users before the event, compared to the use during and after the event. The results not only reveal which spaces were the most used while the Games were being held but also changes in the urban dynamics after the Games. Both approaches can be used to assess the impacts of mega-events and to improve the management and allocation of urban resources such as transport and public services infrastructure.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94797
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94797
LA eng
NO Condeço-Melhorado, Ana, Inmaculada Mohino, Borja Moya-Gómez, y Juan Carlos García-Palomares. «The Rio Olympic Games: A Look into City Dynamics through the Lens of Twitter Data». Sustainability 12, n.o 17 (27 de agosto de 2020): 7003. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12177003.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España) 
NO European Commission 
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025