Geoscope: Online detection of geo-correlated information trends in social networks

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 229-240

  Budak, Ceren ^a   Georgiou, Theodore ^b   Agrawal, Divyakant ^b   El Abbadi, Amr ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STREAMS;

ALGORITHMIC TOOLS; CORRELATED PAIRS; CULTURAL EVENTS; EMERGENCY EVENTS; ON-LINE DETECTION; THEORETICAL GUARANTEES; TREND DETECTION; TWITTER ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84896985660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14778/2732240.2732242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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