Beyond "local", "categories" and "friends": Clustering foursquare users with latent "topics"

UbiComp'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 919-926

  Joseph, Kenneth ^a   Tan, Chun How ^a   Carley, Kathleen M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foursquare; Location based service; Topic modeling

Indexed keywords

FOURSQUARE; GEO-SPATIAL; GROUP USERS; LATENT VARIABLE; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; TEXT DOCUMENT; TOPIC MODELING;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84879484629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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