Crisis situations generate tens of millions of social media reports, many of which contain references to geographic features and locations. Contemporary systems are now capable of …
In this paper, we introduce a web-enabled geovisual analytics approach to leveraging Twitter in support of crisis management. The approach is implemented in a map-based …
For 20 years, analysts have been interested in using authoritative spatial data to support planning and decision making by using the proliferation of geographic information systems …
JJD White, RE Roth - Proceedings of GIScience, 2010 - geography.wisc.edu
Here, we introduce TwitterHitter, an application that leverages GIScience and information visualization techniques to harvest spatiotemporal insights from microblogging generally …
Dominated by quantitative data science techniques, social media data analysis often fails to incorporate the surrounding context, conversation, and metadata that allows for more …
JK Nelson, S Quinn, B Swedberg, W Chu… - … International Journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
We introduce spatial patterns of Tweets visualization (SPoTvis), a web-based geovisual analytics tool for exploring messages on Twitter (or “tweets”) collected about political …
With billions of active users, social media platforms now generate spatial data on a massive scale, which presents researchers with opportunities to use this data in new and innovative …
In the last few years, Twitter data has become so popular that it is used in a rich set of new applications, eg, real-time event detection, demographic analysis, and news extraction. As …
Social media generated from many individuals is playing a greater role in our daily lives and provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable insight on information flow and social …