Detecting future social unrest in unprocessed Twitter data: 'Emerging phenomena and big data'

IEEE ISI 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics: Big Data, Emergent Threats, and Decision-Making in Security Informatics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 56-60

  Compton, Ryan ^a   Lee, Craig ^a   Lu, Tsai Ching ^a   De Silva, Lalindra ^b   Macy, Michael ^c  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIT TRAILS; DATA STREAMING; GEO CODING; LARGE VOLUMES; LATIN AMERICANS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION CLASSIFIER; SOCIAL MEDIA DATA MININGS; SYSTEM FUNCTIONS;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84883426050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISI.2013.6578786     Document Type: Conference Paper

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