Spatiotemporal social media analytics for abnormal event detection and examination using seasonal-trend decomposition

IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2012, VAST 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 143-152

  Chae, Junghoon ^a   Thom, Dennis ^b   Bosch, Harald ^b   Jang, Yun ^c   Maciejewski, Ross ^d   Ebert, David S ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c Sejong University   (South Korea)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

H.3.3 Information Storage and Retrieval : Information Search and Retrieval Information filtering, relevance feedback; H.5.2 Information Interfaces and Presentation : User Interfaces GUI

Indexed keywords

CONTROL CHARTS; DATA SETS; DATA-SOURCES; EVENT DETECTION; H.5.2 [INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION]: USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE VISUAL ANALYSIS; INTERNET USERS; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; SEASONAL TRENDS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA; TEMPORAL TRENDS; VISUAL ANALYTICS; YOUTUBE;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; STATISTICS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84872940321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2012.6400557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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