Towards integrating real-world spatiotemporal data with social networks

H Pham, L Hu, C Shahabi - Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
As the popularity of social networks is continuously growing, collected data about online
social activities is becoming an important asset enabling many applications such as target …

GEOSO-a geo-social model: from real-world co-occurrences to social connections

H Pham, L Hu, C Shahabi - … : 7th International Workshop, DNIS 2011, Aizu …, 2011 - Springer
As the popularity of social networks is continuously growing, collected data about online
social activities is becoming an important asset enabling many applications such as target …

Integrating social network data into GISystems

C Andris - International Journal of Geographical Information …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Today, online social media outlets provide new and plentiful sources of data on social
networks (SNs) and location-based social networks (LBSNs), ie, geolocated evidence of …

Spatio-temporal proximity and social distance: a confirmation framework for social reporting

C Schlieder, O Yanenko - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Social reporting is based on the idea that the members of a location-based social network
observe real-world events and publish reports about their observations. Application …

Inferring social ties from geographic coincidences

DJ Crandall, L Backstrom, D Cosley… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
We investigate the extent to which social ties between people can be inferred from co-
occurrence in time and space: Given that two people have been in approximately the same …

A scalable framework for spatiotemporal analysis of location-based social media data

G Cao, S Wang, M Hwang, A Padmanabhan… - … Environment and Urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the past several years, social media (eg, Twitter and Facebook) has experienced a
spectacular rise in popularity and has become a ubiquitous location for discourse, content …

Mining social network from spatio-temporal events

HW Lauw, EP LIM, TT TAN, HH PANG - 2005 - ink.library.smu.edu.sg
Knowing patterns of relationship in a social network is very useful for law enforcement
agencies to investigate collaborations among criminals, for businesses to exploit …

Sophy: a morphological framework for structuring geo-referenced social media

KS Kim, H Ogawa, A Nakamura, I Kojima - Proceedings of the 7th ACM …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Social networks have played a crucial role of information channels for understanding our
daily lives beyond communication tools. In particular, their coupling with geographic location …

Country-level spatial dynamics of user activity: a case study in location-based social networks

A Le, K Pelechrinis, P Krishnamurthy - … of the 2014 ACM conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Identifying and understanding the emerging patterns in user activity is an important step in
designing and developing features for online social networks. With the explosive growth of …

Bridging the gap between physical location and online social networks

J Cranshaw, E Toch, J Hong, A Kittur… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
This paper examines the location traces of 489 users of a location sharing social network for
relationships between the users' mobility patterns and structural properties of their …