A comparison of Foursquare and Instagram to the study of city dynamics and urban social behavior

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Silva, Thiago H ^a   Vaz De Melo, Pedro O S ^a   Almeida, Jussara M ^a   Salles, Juliana ^b   Loureiro, Antonio A F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

city dynamics; Foursquare; Instagram; participatory sensing; social media

Indexed keywords

EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; FOURSQUARE; INSTAGRAM; LOCATION SHARING SERVICES; PARTICIPATORY SENSING; PARTICIPATORY SENSOR NETWORKS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA SYSTEMS;

SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84884141777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2505821.2505836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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