TwitInfo: Aggregating and visualizing microblogs for event exploration

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 227-236

  Marcus, Adam ^a   Bernstein, Michael S ^a   Badar, Osama ^a   Karger, David R ^a   Madden, Samuel ^a   Miller, Robert C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event detection; Exploration; Twitter; Visualization

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DRILL-DOWN; EVENTS DETECTION; GEOLOCATIONS; MICRO-BLOG; QUERYING SERVICES; STREAMING ALGORITHM; SUB-EVENTS; TIMELINE-BASED; TWITTER; USER-GENERATED;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79958165921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1978975     Document Type: Conference Paper

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