Design and prototyping of a social media observatory

WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1351-1357

  McKelvey, Karissa ^a   Menczer, Filippo ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Api; Resource data management; Social media observatory; Visualization; Web observatory

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OBSERVATORIES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

API; COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; HIGH VOLUMES; MICRO-BLOGGING PLATFORMS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; RESOURCE DATA MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIUM OBSERVATORY; VOLUME DATA; WEB OBSERVATORY;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84890935737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487788.2488174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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