{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 on online grocery shopping discussion and behavior reflected from Google Trends and geotagged tweets.","authors":"Nemin Wu, Lan Mu","doi":"10.1007/s43762-023-00083-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00083-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People express opinions, make connections, and disseminate information on social media platforms. We considered grocery-related tweets as a proxy for grocery shopping behaviors or intentions. We collected data from January 2019 to January 2022, representing three typical times of the normal period before the COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak period, and the widespread period. We obtained grocery-related geotagged tweets using a search term index based on the top 10 grocery chains in the US and compiled Google Trends online grocery shopping data. We performed a topic modeling analysis using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), and verified that most of the collected tweets were related to grocery-shopping demands or experiences. Temporal and geographical analyses were applied to investigate when and where people talked more about groceries, and how COVID-19 affected them. The results show that the pandemic has been gradually changing people's daily shopping concerns and behaviors, which have become more spread throughout the week since the pandemic began. Under the causal impact of COVID-19, people first experienced panic buying groceries followed by pandemic fatigue a year later. The normalized tweet counts show a decrease of 40% since the pandemic began, and the negative causal effect can be considered statistically significant (<i>p</i>-value = 0.001). The variation in the quantity of grocery-related tweets also reflects geographic diversity in grocery concerns. We found that people in non-farm areas with less population and relatively lower levels of educational attainment tend to act more sensitively to the evolution of the pandemic. Utilizing the COVID-19 death cases and consumer price index (CPI) for food at home as background information, we proposed an understanding of the pandemic's impact on online grocery shopping by assembling, geovisualizing, and analyzing the evolution of online grocery behaviors and discussion on social media before and during the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":"3 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9943725/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10792679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urbanization diseconomies in China: roles of temporary migrant workers in foreign direct investment location","authors":"Hao-Cheng Huang","doi":"10.1007/s43762-022-00068-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00068-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47931629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alejandro Giraldo-Quintero, J. Lalinde-Pulido, J. Duque, Daniel Sierra-Sosa
{"title":"Using quantum computing to solve the maximal covering location problem","authors":"Alejandro Giraldo-Quintero, J. Lalinde-Pulido, J. Duque, Daniel Sierra-Sosa","doi":"10.1007/s43762-022-00070-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00070-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49529894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Walid Al-Shaar, J. Adjizian-Gerard, O. Bonin, N. Nehme
{"title":"Land use impacts of implementing a bus rapid transit system: case of Beirut southern corridor","authors":"Walid Al-Shaar, J. Adjizian-Gerard, O. Bonin, N. Nehme","doi":"10.1007/s43762-022-00072-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00072-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41896411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Nadimpalli, Pratiman Patel, U. Mohanty, S. D. Attri, D. Niyogi
{"title":"Impact of urban parameterization and integration of WUDAPT on the severe convection","authors":"R. Nadimpalli, Pratiman Patel, U. Mohanty, S. D. Attri, D. Niyogi","doi":"10.1007/s43762-022-00071-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00071-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44979029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Nandini, V. Vinoj, Soumya Satyakanta Sethi, H. Nayak, K. Landu, D. Swain, U. Mohanty
{"title":"A modelling study on quantifying the impact of urbanization and regional effects on the wintertime surface temperature over a rapidly-growing tropical city","authors":"G. Nandini, V. Vinoj, Soumya Satyakanta Sethi, H. Nayak, K. Landu, D. Swain, U. Mohanty","doi":"10.1007/s43762-022-00067-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00067-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45738273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hamid Mirzahossein, A. Bakhtiari, N. Kalantari, Xia Jin
{"title":"Investigating mandatory and non-mandatory trip patterns based on socioeconomic characteristics and traffic analysis zone features using deep neural networks","authors":"Hamid Mirzahossein, A. Bakhtiari, N. Kalantari, Xia Jin","doi":"10.1007/s43762-022-00063-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-022-00063-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72667,"journal":{"name":"Computational urban science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48079791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}