Spatiotemporal transformation of social media geostreams: A case study of Twitter for flu risk analysis

Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming, IWGS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 12-21

  Hwang, Myung Hwa ^a   Wang, Shaowen ^a   Cao, Guofeng ^a,b   Padmanabhan, Anand ^a   Zhang, Zhenhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

data pipeline; disease surveillance; social media geostreams; spatiotemporal analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894631570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2534303.2534310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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