Using social media to infer gender composition of commuter populations

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-12-04, Issue , 2012, Pages 26-29

  Liu, Wendy ^a   Al Zamal, Faiyaz ^a   Ruths, Derek ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS DATA; GROUND TRUTH; INFERENCE ALGORITHM; NEWS FEEDS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TORONTO , CANADA;

ESTIMATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; MASS TRANSPORTATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84875625072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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