About
Grant McKenzie is an associate professor of spatial data science in the Department of Geography at McGill University. At McGill, Grant leads the Platial Analysis Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that works at the intersection of information science and behavioral geography. Much of Grant's work examines how human activity patterns vary within and between local regions and global communities. This has driven his applied interests geoprivacy and new mobility services as well as the broader role that geographic information science plays at the intersection of information technologies and society. Outside of academia, Grant has worked as a data scientist and software developer for a range of NGOs and leading technology companies.
Publications
Author-accepted version of most of the articles below are available by clicking the manuscript title.
* Indicates students under my supervision
Refereed journal articles
2025
Frazier, A., Nelson, T., Kedron, P., Shook, E., Dodge, S., Murray, A., Goodchild, M., Battersby, S., Blanford, J. I., Claramunt, C., Holler, J., Koylu, C., Lee, A., Manson, S., Salap-Ayca, S., Wilson, J., Zhao, B., Bennett, L., Cabrera-Arnau, C., Franklin, R., McKenzie, G. , Miller, H., Oshan, T., Rey, S., Rowe, F., Spielman, S., Xu, W. Reflecting on the role of GIScience Education in an age of disruptions. Transactions in GIS. 29(2). e70048. Wiley. [10.1111/tgis.70048]
2025
McKenzie, G. , Romm, D.*, Féré, C.*, Balarezo, M.L.G. Gender differences in urban recreational running: A data-driven approach. Journal of Transport Geography. 124. 104171. Elsevier. [10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104171]
2024
Zhang, H.*, McKenzie, G. Geoprivacy knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours in contemporary China. Geographical Review. pp. 1-25. Taylor & Francis. [10.1080/00167428.2024.2422873]
2024
Nelson, T., Frazier, A., Kedron, P., Dodge, S., Zhao, B., Goodchild, M., Murray, A., Battersby, S., Bennett, L., Blanford, J. I., Cabrera-Arnau, C., Claramunt, C., Franklin, R., Holler, J., Koylu, C., Lee, A., Manson, S., McKenzie, G. , Miller, H., Oshan, T., Rey, S., Rowe, F., Salap-Ayca, S., Shook, E., Spielman, S., Xu, W., Wilson, J. A research agenda for GIScience in a time of disruptions. International journal of geographical information science. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1-24. [10.1080/13658816.2024.2405191]
2024
Qiang, D.*, McKenzie, G. Navigating the Post-Pandemic Urban Landscape: Disparities in Transportation Recovery & Regional Insights from New York City. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Elsevier. [10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2024.102111]
2024
Verma, P.*, McKenzie, G. Regional Comparison of Socio-Demographic Variation in Urban E-scooter Usage. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (Special issue on Spatial Inequalities and Cities). Sage. [10.1177/23998083241240195]
2023
McKenzie, G., Battersby, S., Setlur, V. MixMap: A user-driven approach to place-based semantic similarity. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. Taylor & Francis. [10.1080/15230406.2023.2176930]
2022
Psyllidis, A., Gao, S., Hu, Y., Kim, E-K., McKenzie, G., Purves, R., Yuan, M., Andris, C. Points of Interest (POI): a commentary on the state of the art, challenges, and prospects for the future. Computational Urban Science. Springer. [10.1007/s43762-022-00047-w]
2022
McKenzie, G., Romm, D.*, Zhang, H.*, Brunila, M.* PrivyTo: A privacy preserving location sharing platform. Transactions in GIS. Wiley Press. [10.1111/tgis.12924]
2022
Zhang, H.*, McKenzie, G., Rehumanize geoprivacy: From disclosure control to human perception. GeoJournal. (2022). Springer. [10.1007/s10708-022-10598-4]
2021
McKenzie, G., Mwenda, K. Identifying regional variation in place visit behavior during a global pandemic. Journal of Spatial Information Science. 23. pp. 95-124. [10.5311/JOSIS.2021.23.170]
2021
McKenzie, G., Romm, D.* Measuring urban regional similarity through mobility signatures. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 89 (September 2021) 101684. Elsevier. [10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101684]
2020
McKenzie, G., Adams, B. A country comparison of place-based activity response to COVID-19 policies. Applied Geography. 125 (2020). 102363. Elsevier. [10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102363]
2020
Flanagin, A., McKenzie, G., Abeyta, A. Location in location-less environments: The role of geospatial concordance in online information evaluation. New Media & Society. Sage Press. [10.1177/1461444820935608]
2020
McKenzie, G. Urban mobility in the sharing economy: A spatiotemporal comparison of shared mobility services. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 79. 101418. Elsevier. [10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.101418]
2020
Janowicz, K., Gao, S., McKenzie, G., Hu, Y., Bhaduri, B. GeoAI: spatially explicit artificial intelligence techniques for geographic knowledge discovery and beyond. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 34(4). 625-636. Taylor & Francis [10.1080/13658816.2019.1684500]
2019
McKenzie, G. Spatiotemporal comparative analysis of scooter-share and bike-share usage patterns in Washington, D.C.. Journal of Transport Geography. 78. 19-28. Elsevier. [10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.05.007]
2019
Regalia, B., Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G. Computing and Querying Strict, Approximate, and Metrically-Refined Topological Relations in Linked Geographic Data. Transactions in GIS. 23(3). 601-619. Wiley Press. [10.1111/tgis.12548]
2019
McKenzie, G., Slind, R.T. A user-generated data based approach to enhancing location prediction of financial services in sub-Saharan Africa. Applied Geography. 105. 25-36. Elsevier. [10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.02.005]
2018
McKenzie, G., Liu, Z.*, Hu, Y., Lee, M.* Identifying urban neighborhood names through user-contributed online property listings. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 7(10). 388. MDPI. [10.3390/ijgi7100388]
2018
Fu, C.*, McKenzie, G., Frias-Martinez, V., Stewart, K. Identifying spatiotemporal urban activities through linguistic signatures. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 72(1) 25-37. Elsevier. [10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.07.003]
2018
McKenzie, G., Adams, B. A data-driven approach to exploring similarities of tourist attractions through online reviews. Journal of Location Based Services. 12(2) 94-118. Taylor & Francis. [10.1080/17489725.2018.1493548]
2018
Hu, Y., Mao, H., McKenzie, G. A Natural Language Processing and Geospatial Clustering Framework for Harvesting Local Place Names from Geotagged Housing Advertisements. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. Taylor & Francis. [10.1080/13658816.2018.1458986]
2018
Adams, B., McKenzie, G. Crowdsourcing the Character of a Place: Character-Level Convolutional Networks for Multilingual Geographic Text Classification. Transactions in GIS. 22(2) 394-408. Wiley Press. [10.1111/tgis.12317]
2017
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. ISED: Constructing a high-resolution elevation road dataset from massive, low-quality in-situ observations derived from geosocial fitness tracking data. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186474. [10.1371/journal.pone.0186474]
2017
Keßler, C., McKenzie, G. A Geoprivacy Manifesto. Transactions in GIS. 22(1) 3-19. Wiley Press. [10.1111/tgis.12305]
2017
Gao, S., Janowicz, K., Montello, D., Hu, Y., Yang, J., McKenzie, G., Ju, Y., Gong, Li., Adams, B., Yan, B. A Data-Synthesis-Driven Method for Detecting and Extracting Vague Cognitive Regions International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 31(6) 1245-1271. Taylor & Francis [10.1080/13658816.2016.1273357]
2016
Regalia, B., McKenzie, G., Gao, S., Janowicz, J. Crowdsensing Smart Ambient Environments and Services. Transactions in GIS. 20(3) 382-298. Wiley Press [10.1111/tgis.12233]
2016
Zhu, R., Hu, Y., Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G.. Spatial Signatures for Geographic Feature Types: Examining Gazetteer Ontologies using Spatial Statistics. Transactions in GIS. 20(3) 333-355. Wiley Press [10.1111/tgis.12232]
2016
McKenzie, G., Hegarty, M., Barrett, T., Goodchild, M. Assessing the Effectiveness of Different Visualizations for Judgments of Positional Uncertainty. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 30(2) 221-239. Taylor & Francis [10.1080/13658816.2015.1082566]
2016
McKenzie, G., Klippel, A., The Interaction of Landmarks and Map Alignment in You-Are-Here Maps. The Cartographic Journal. 53(1) 43-54 Maney Press. [10.1179/1743277414Y.0000000101]
2015
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Gao, S., Gong, L. How Where Is When? On the Regional Variability and Resolution of Geosocial Temporal Signatures for Points Of Interest. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (Special issue on New insights gained from location-based social media data). 54. 336-346. Elsevier [10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.10.002]
2015
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. Where is also about time: A location-distortion model to improve reverse geocoding using behavior-driven temporal signatures. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 54. 1-13. Elsevier [10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.05.003]
2015
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Gao, S., Yang, J-A., Hu, Y. POI Pulse: A multi-granual, semantic signatures-based information observatory for the interactive visualization of big geosocial data. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 50(2) 71-85. The University of Toronto Press [10.3138/cart.50.2.2662]
2014
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Adams, B. A Weighted Multi-Attribute Method for Matching User-Generated Points of Interest. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 41(2) 125-137. Taylor & Francis [bib | 10.1080/15230406.2014.880327]
Refereed short papers
2025
Zhang, H., McKenzie, G. Evaluating Spatial Dependency in Regional Similarities of the Population Dynamics Foundation Model. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE 2025). (Dresden, DE; June 10-13, 2025).
2023
Qiang, D.*, McKenzie, G. Mobility Vitality: Assessing Neighborhood Similarity through Transportation Patterns in New York City. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience '23). (Leeds, UK; September 13-15, 2023).
2023
Brunila, M.*, Verma, P.*, McKenzie, G. When Everything is `Nearby': How Airbnb Listings in New York City Exaggerate Proximity. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience '23). (Leeds, UK; September 13-15, 2023).
2023
Shi, M., Currier, K., Liu, Z., Janowicz, K., Wiedemann, J., McKenzie, G., Graser, A., Zhu, R., Mai, G. Thinking Geographically about AI Sustainability. Proceedings of the 26th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE '23). (Delft, the Netherlands; June 13-16, 2023).
2023
McKenzie, G. A comparison of electric and non-electric bike sharing in Montreal, Canada. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM '23). (Montreal, Canada; June 20-22, 2023). Springer.
2022
McKenzie, G., Battersby, S., Selter, V. MixMap: Exploring User-Driven Semantic Similarity of Places. AutoCarto 2022. The Cartography and Geographic Information Society.
2022
Zhang, H.*, McKenzie, G. Towards place-based privacy: Challenges and opportunities in the "smart" world. IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) 2022. IEEE.
2022
Romm, D.*, Verma, P.*, Karpinski, E., Sanders, T., McKenzie, G. Differences in First-Mile and Last-Mile Behaviour in Candidate Multi-Modal Boston Bike-share Micromobility Trips. Journal of Transport Geography (Visualizing Transport Geography Short Paper). Elsevier
2021
Romm, D.*, Zhang, H.*, Verma, P.*, McKenzie, G., Chen, E.* "Data Horror": Mapping (Spatial) Data PrivacyViolations onto a Cognitive Account of Horror. Spatial Data Science Symposium 2021 (SDSS '21). Online. 13-14 December 2021. [10.25436/E23S3T]
2021
McKenzie, G. Leveraging Place Reviews to Identify the Affects of COVID-19 on Canadian Tourism. Third International Symposium on Platial Information Science (PLATIAL'21). Enschede, the Netherlands. 15-17 December 2021 [10.5281/zenodo.5767190]
2019
Keßler, C., McKenzie, G. Consistency Across Geosocial Media Platforms. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Location Based Services (LBS 2019). Work-in-progress Paper. (November 11, Vienna, Austria)
2018
McKenzie, G. Docked vs. Dockless Bike-sharing: Contrasting Spatiotemporal Patterns. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience '18). Short Paper. (August 28-31, Melbourne, Australia). Dagstuhl
2018
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. OpenPOI: An Open Place of Interest Platform. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience '18'). Short Paper. (August 28-31, Melbourne, Australia). Dagstuhl
2017
Sinha, G., Arundel, S., Stewart, K., Mark, D., Hahmann, T., Romero, B., Sorokine, A., Usery, L., McKenzie, G. A reference landform ontology for automated delineation of depression landforms from DEMs. Conference on Spatial Information Theory (poster session). (September 4-8, L'Aquila, Italy) [Poster]
2017
Lee, M., McKenzie, G, Aghi, R. Exploratory cluster analysis of urban mobility patterns to identify neighborhood boundaries. International Symposium on Location-Based Social Media Data and Tracking Data. (July 1-2, Washington, D.C.)
2017
Hu, Y., Mao, H., McKenzie, G. A NLP and Geospatial Workflow for Harvesting Local Place Names from Geotagged Social Web. International Symposium on Location-Based Social Media Data and Tracking Data. (July 1-2, Washington, D.C.)
2017
Abeyta, A., Flanagin, A., McKenzie, G. Exploring the credibility of online information: A proposed framework for understanding experiential credibility. The 62nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA '17) - Extended Abstract. (May 25-29, San Diego, CA)
2016
McKenzie, G., Baez, C. Uber vs. Taxis: Event detection and differentiation in New York City Geographic Information Science (GIScience '16) - Short Paper. (September 27-30, Montreal, Canada)
2015
McKenzie, G. The pretense of residential privacy in geosocial networking data. International Conference on Location-Based Social Media Data. (March 13-14, Athens, GA)
2015
Gong, L., Gao, S., McKenzie, G. POI Type Matching based on Culturally Different Datasets. International Conference on Location-Based Social Media Data. (March 13-14, Athens, GA)
2014
McKenzie, G. Position Paper: Spatial Search. Spatial@UCSB Specialist Meeting Santa Barbara, California
2014
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. Coerced Geographic Information: The Not-so-voluntary Side of User-generated Geo-content. Extended Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2014) Vienna, Austria
2014
Gao, S., Yang, J-A., Yan, B., Hu., Y., Janowicz, J., McKenzie, G. Detecting Origin-Destination Mobility Flows From Geotagged Tweets in Greater Los Angeles Area. Extended Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2014) Vienna, Austria
2013
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Hu, Y., Sengupta, K., Hitzler, P. Linked Scientometrics: Designing Interactive Scientometrics with Linked Data and Semantic Web Reasoning. The 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC '13) (Demonstration Paper) Sydney, Australia [Video]
2012
McKenzie, G. and Raubal, M. Ground-truthing spatial activities through online social networking data. Extended Abstracts of the Seventh International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2012) Columbus, OH.
2012
Hu, Y., Li, W., Janowicz, K., Deutsch, K., McKenzie, G., Goulias, K. Using spatial-temporal signatures to infer human activities from personal trajectories on location-enabled mobile devices. Extended Abstracts of the Seventh International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2012), Columbus, OH.
2012
Adams, B. and McKenzie, G. Frankenplace: An Application for Similarity-Based Place Search. Application Demo at the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12), Dublin, Ireland, AAAI Press.
2011
McKenzie, G., Raubal, M. Adding social constraints to location based services. Extended Abstracts of the 8th Symposium on Location-Based Services. Vienna, Austria
Refereed conference papers
2025
McKenzie, G. (Accepted) MODAP: A Multi-City Open Data \& Analytics Platform for Micromobility Research. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025). Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. (August 26-29; Christchurch, New Zealand)
2025
Qiang, D.*, McKenzie, G. (Accepted) Mobility Vitality: Measuring urban vitality through active and micro-mobility modes. Proceedings of the 28th Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe Conference (AGILE 2025). AGILE GIScience Ser. 6. (June 10-13; Dresden, Germany)
2023
Brunila, M.*, LaViolette, J., CH-Wang, S., Verma, P.*, Féré, C.*, McKenzie, G. Toward a Critical Toponymy Framework for Named Entity Recognition: A Case Study of Airbnb in New York City. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). ACL SIGDAT (December 6-10; Singapore) [Outstanding Paper Award] [10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.284]
2023
McKenzie, G., Zhang, H.* Platial k-anonymity: Improving location anonymity through temporal popularity signatures. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science. Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. (September 13-15; Leeds, UK) [Best Paper Award] [10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.9]
2022
Janowicz, K., Zui, R., Verstegen, J., McKenzie, G., Martins, B., Cai, L. Six GIScience Ideas That Must Die. Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE GIScience Series) [10.5194/agile-giss-3-7-2022]
2020
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Keßler, C. Uncovering spatiotemporal biases in place-based social sensing. Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE GIScience Ser.. 1. 14. [10.5194/agile-giss-1-14-2020]
2017
Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G. How "Alternative" are Alternative Facts? Measuring Statement Coherence via Spatial Analysis. In: E. Hoel, S. Newsam, S. Ravada, R. Tamassia, G. Trajcevski. Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017). No. 13. ACM. (November 7-10, Redondo Beach, CA, USA) [10.1145/3139958.3140058]
2017
McKenzie, G., Adams, B. Juxtaposing thematic regions derived from spatial and platial user-generated content. In: Clementini E., Donnelly M., Yuan M., Kray C., Fogliaroni P., Ballatore B. (eds) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '17). (pp. 20:1-20:14) Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. (September 4-8, L'Aquila, Italy) [10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2017.20]
2017
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. The Effect of Regional Variation and Resolution on Geosocial Thematic Signatures for Points of Interest. In: Bregt A., Sarjakoski T., van Lammeren R., Rip F. (eds) Societal Geo-innovation. AGILE 2017 (pp. 237-256) Springer, Cham. (May 9-12, Wageningen, Netherlands)
2016
Ju, Y., Adams, B., Janowicz, K., Hu, Y., Yan, B., McKenzie, G. Things and Strings: Improving Place Name Disambiguation from Short Texts by Combining Entity Co-Occurrence with Topic Modeling In: Blomqvist E., Ciancarini P., Poggi F., Vitali, F. (eds) Proceedings of EKAW 2016 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (pp. 353-367) Springer-Verlag, New York. (November 19-23, Bologna, Italy)
2016
Janowicz, K. , Hu, Y., McKenzie, G., Gao, S., Regalia, B., Mai, G., Zhu, R., Adams, B., and Taylor, K. Moon Landing or Safari? A Study of Systematic Errors and their Causes in Geographic Linked Data. In: Miller J., O'Sullivan D., Wiegand N. (eds) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Geographic Information Science. (pp. 275-290). Springer. (September 27-30, Montreal, Canada)
2016
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, J., Seidl, D. Geo-privacy beyond coordinates In: Sarjakoski T., Santos M.Y., Sarjakoski, L.T. (eds) Geospatial Data in a Changing World. AGILE 2016. (pp. 157-175) Springer, Cham (June 14-17, Helsinki, Finland)
2015
Adams, B., McKenzie, G., Gahegan, M. Frankenplace: Interactive thematic mapping for ad hoc exploratory search. Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015). 12-22. (May 18-22, Florence, Italy)
2014
Savage, S. Forbes, A., Toxtli, C., McKenzie, G., Desai, S. M., Hollerer, T. Visual Analysis of Targeted Audiences. The 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (May 27-30, Nice, France)
2013
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Adams, B. Weighted Multi-Attribute Matching of User-Generated Points of Interest. 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (Short Paper). Orlando, FL, USA
2013
Gau, S., Hu, Y., Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G., A Spatiotemporal Scientometrics Framework for Exploring the Citation Impact of Publications and Scientists. Proceedings of The 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pp 204-213 (November 5-8, Orlando, FL)
2013
Hu, Y., Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G., Sengupta, K., Hitzler, P. A Linked Data-driven Semantically-enabled Journal Portal for Scientometrics. The 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC '13) 114-129 (October 21-25, Sydney, Australia)
2013
McKenzie, G., Adams, B., Janowicz, K. A thematic approach to user similarity built on geosocial check-ins In Proceedings of the 2013 AGILE Conference. Leuven, Belgium [bib]
Book chapters
2025
Yuan, Y., Wang, P., McKenzie, G., Sun, M., Xu, Y., Verma, P. (In Press) Human mobility in a post-pandemic world. In: Huang, X., Ye, X., Stewart, K., Das, S. (Eds.), Urban Human Mobility - Practices, Analytics, and Strategies for Smart Cities. CRC Press.
2023
McKenzie, G., Zhang, H.*, Gambs, S. Privacy and Ethics in GeoAI. In: Gao, S., Hu, Y., Li, W. (Eds.), Handbook of Geospatial Artificial. CRC Press.
2021
McKenzie, G., Baez, C. A Spatiotemporal approach to micromobility. In: T. Sigler, J. Corcoran (Eds.), A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy. 195-208. Edward Elgar Publishing. [978 1 78990 955 5]
2021
McKenzie, G., Adams, B. Natural Language Processing in GIScience Applications. In: Wilson, J. and Bian, L. (Eds.), The GIS\&T Body of Knowledge. The University Consortium of Geographic Information Science.
2019
Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G., Hu, Y., Zhu, R., and Gao, S. Using Semantic Signatures for Social Sensing in Urban Environments. In: C. Antoniou, L. Dimitriou, F. Pereira (Eds.), Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics: Tools and Applications for Modeling. 31-54. Elsevier. [10.1016/B978-0-12-812970-8.00003-8]
2012
Adams, B. and McKenzie, G. Inferring Thematic Places from Spatially Referenced Natural Language Descriptions. In: D. Sui, S. Elwood, and M. Goodchild (Eds.), Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge, 201-221. Springer. [10.1007/978-94-007-4587-2_12]
Refereed workshop papers
2021
Chen, E. and McKenzie, G. Mobility Response to COVID-19-related Restrictions in New York City The 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Computing for Epidemiology (SpatialEpi 2021) in conjunction with the 29th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. (November 2, 2021, Shanghi, China)
2019
McKenzie, G. Shared micro-mobility patterns as measures of city similarity 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computing with Multifaceted Movement Data (MOVE++ 2019) in conjunction with the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. (November 5, 2019, Chicago, IL, USA)
2019
Zhu, R., McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. Are Streets Indicative of Place Types? GEOgraphical and CULTural aspects of Geo-data: Issues and Solutions (GeoCultGIS) workshop in conjunction with the AGILE 2019 conference. (June 17, 2019, Limassol, Cyprus)
2018
Mai, G., Janowicz, K., Hu, Y., Gao, S., Zhu, R., Yan, B., McKenzie, G., Uppal, A., Regalia, B. Collections of Points of Interest: How to Name Them and Why it Matters. Spatial big data and machine learning in GIScience workshop in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience '18). (August 2018, Melbourne, Australia)
2017
McKenzie, G., Hu, Y. The "Nearby" Exaggeration in Real Estate. Cognitive Scales of Spatial Information (CoSSI 2017) in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '17). (Sept. 4, 2017, L'Aquila, Italy)
2017
Regalia, B., Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G. Revisiting the Representation of and Need for Raw Geometries on the Linked Data Web Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2017) in conjunction with the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW '17). (April 3, 2017, Perth, Australia)
2016
Mai, G., Janowicz, K., Hu, Y., McKenzie, G. A Linked Data Driven Visual Interface for the Multi-Perspective Exploration of Data Across Repositories Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data (VOILA 2016) in conjunction with the International Semantic Web Conference 2016. (October 2016, Kobe, Japan)
2015
McKenzie, G., Adams, B., Janowicz, K. Of Oxen and Birds: Is Yik Yak a useful new data source in the geosocial zoo or just another Twitter? Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) (In conjunction with the 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015)), (November 3, 2015, Seattle, WA, USA)
2015
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. Information Observatories: What Are They Good For? Proceedings of Workshop on Geographic Information Observatories (In conjunction with the Twelfth Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '15)), (October 12, 2015, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
2015
Janowicz, K., Kauppinen, T., Schade, S., Ballatore, A., McKenzie, G. Contextual Information: Lenses for Observing the Data Universe. Proceedings of Workshop on Geographic Information Observatories (In conjunction with the Twelfth Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '15)), (October 12, 2015, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
2015
Hu, Y., McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K., Gao, S. Mining Human-Place Interaction Patterns from Location-Based Social Networks to Enrich Place Categorization Systems. Proceedings of Workshop on Cognitive Engineering for Spatial Information Processes (In conjunction with the Twelfth Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '15)), (October 12, 2015, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
2014
Janowicz, K., Adams, B., McKenzie, G., Kauppinen, T. Towards Geographic Information Observatories. Proceedings of Workshop on Geographic Information Observatories at the Eight International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIO @ GIScience '14), (September 23, Vienna, Austria)
2014
Hu, Y., McKenzie, G., Yang, J., Gao, S., Abdalla, A., Janowicz, K., A Linked-Data-Driven Web Portal for Learning Analytics: Data Enrichment, Interactive Visualization, and Knowledge Discovery. LAK Data Challenge Workshop at The 4th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2014), (March 24, Indianapolis, IN) [2nd Place Award in Data Challenge]
2013
Gau, S., Janowicz, K., McKenzie, G., Li, L., Towards Platial Joins and Buffers in Place-Based GIS. The First International Workshop on Computational Models of Place (CoMP) at the The 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, (November 5-8, Orlando, FL)
2013
McKenzie, G., Barrett, T., Hegarty, M., Goodchild, M., Thompson, W. Assessing the Effectiveness of Visualizations for Accurate Judgements of Geospatial Uncertainty. Visually-Supported Reasoning with Uncertainty workshop at the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '13) (September 2, Scarborough, UK)
2013
McKenzie, G., Deutsch, K., Raubal, M. What, When and Where: The real-world activities that contribute to online social networking posts. Action and Interaction in Volunteered Geographic Information (ACTIVITY) Workshop. Leuven, Belgium
2011
McKenzie, G. Gamification and Location-based Services. Cognitive Engineering for Mobile GIS Workshop @ COSIT Belfast, ME
Non-refereed works
2017
Liu, Z., McKenzie, G. Identifying Spatiotemporal Activity Patterns in Beijing Based on Geosocial Microblogs. Center for Geospatial Information Science Inauguration, College Park, MD.
2017
Lee, M., Aghi, R., McKenzie, G. Toward Identifying Neighborhoods: Activity-based Clustering Analyses. HCIL Symposium Poster Session, College Park, MD.
2014
McKenzie, G., Janowicz, K. Activities in a New City: Itinerary Recommendation Based on User Similarity. Spatial Knowledge and Information (SKI) - Canada (Feb 7-9, Banff, AB)
2013
Barrett, T., McKenzie, G., Hegarty, M., Thompson, W. B., Goodchild, M. F. (2013) Understanding the "Blue Dot" in Smartphone Displays. spatial@ucsb.local13 Poster Session, Santa Barbara CA.
2013
Hu, Y., McKenzie, G., Gao, S., Janowicz, K. Citation Map: Visualizing the Spread of Scientific Ideas through Space and Time. spatial@ucsb.local13 Poster Session, Santa Barbara CA.[png][video][demo]
2012
Deutsch, K., McKenzie, G., Hu, Y., Janowicz, J., Li, W., and Goulias, K., Examining the Use of Smartphones and Data Quality in Data Collection for Travel Behavior Research. Proceedings of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research, Toronto, ON.
2012
McKenzie, G. Enhancing activity surveys through online social networking data. UCTC Student Conference (Abstract) UC Davis, CA
2011
McKenzie, G. Determining Social Constraints in Time Geography through Online Social Networking. Conference on Spatial Information Theory 2011 (COSIT) - Doctoral Colloquium. Belfast, ME
2011
Adams, B. and McKenzie, G. Modeling and mapping thematic places. Mapping Place: GIS and the Spatial Humanities Conference. Santa Barbara, USA
2011
Deutsch, K., McKenzie, G., Stevenson, D., Dara-Abrams, D., and Goulias, K. Integrating GPS and Smart Phone Technologies for Behavioral Data Collection. Eurogeo: The meeting of the Association of European Geographers. Athens Greece, June 2-4
2008
Smith, E., McKenzie, G., Duckham, M. The only game in town. Position Magazine n33 pp. 51-54
2008
Fennell, C., McKenzie, G., Butler, B. HarvestChoice: Developing Biblio-spatial Integrations for Search. Digital Library Federation 2008 Spring Forum
Doctoral Dissertation & Master's Thesis
2015
McKenzie, G. A Temporal Approach to Defining Place Types based on User-contributed Geosocial data. Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2007
McKenzie, G. Exploring the Influence of Landmark Presence and Map Alignment on Wayfinding Performance Using Virtual Environment Modeling. Melbourne, AUS
Portfolio
A selection of projects in which I have been involved or lead.
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Contact
Contact me via one of the methods below. For more information on the Platial Analysis Lab, please visit https://platial.science.
grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca