Application of big data to cities in the United States

Abstract

In this work, based on the dataset released by the Bing Maps team, we investigate the statistical properties of 120 million buildings. The areas of each building have been derived. We investigate the distribution of build area in the 50 states and find that it follows a Weibull distribution. Then, the statistical properties of the number of edges of each building have been analyzed. Results show that there exists a power-law distribution. Finally, we construct a community network from this dataset and investigate the properties.