Social media data mining: A social network analysis of tweets during the Australian 2010-2011 floods

PACIS 2011 - 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cheong, France ^a   Cheong, Christopher ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mass emergencies; Social media; Social network analysis; Text mining

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL INFORMATION; EMERGENCY SITUATION; GENERAL INFORMATION; GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS; LOCAL AUTHORITIES; MASS EMERGENCIES; NEW SOUTH WALES; ON-LINE NETWORK; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE RESOURCES; QUEENSLAND; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; TEXT MINING;

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; FLOODS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84855837557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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