Spatiotemporal anomaly detection through visual analysis of geolocated Twitter messages

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2012, PacificVis 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 41-48

  Thom, Dennis ^a   Bosch, Harald ^a   Koch, Steffen ^a   Worner, Michael ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; ANOMALY DETECTION; BLOGGING; DATA SOURCE; EVENT REPORT; GLOBAL SCALE; INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS; LOCATION BASED; MESSAGE STREAMS; MICRO-BLOG; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; REAL TIME; SEMANTIC LAYER; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TEXT VISUALIZATION; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL EXAMINATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MAPS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84860664747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PacificVis.2012.6183572     Document Type: Conference Paper

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