Machine Learning
& (new) data
Thies Lindenthal
Department of Land Economy / University of Cambridge
E-mail: htl24@cam.ac.uk / Twitter: @ThiesLindenthal
Typical Toolbox
Computer vision + ML classification + trad. econometrics
1: Reduce costs
Teach computers to “see”. E.g. Infer quality or style attributes from street-level images (e.g. Lindenthal & Johnson, 2021)
Large scale, low cost
Collecting images/feature vectors of each building in the UK.
Electric cars!
Solar panels!