Whisper: Tracing the spatiotemporal process of information diffusion in real time

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2649-2658

  Cao, Nan ^a   Lin, Yu Ru ^b   Sun, Xiaohua ^c   Lazer, David ^b   Liu, Shixia ^d   Qu, Huamin ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

contagion; information diffusion; Information visualization; microblogging; Social media; spatiotemporal patterns

Indexed keywords

CONTAGION; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MICROBLOGGING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DIFFUSION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROCEDURES; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOFTWARE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84867634266     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.291     Document Type: Article

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