Geo-located Twitter as proxy for global mobility patterns

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 260-271

  Hawelka, Bartosz ^a,b   Sitko, Izabela ^a,b   Beinat, Euro ^a   Sobolevsky, Stanislav ^b   Kazakopoulos, Pavlos ^a   Ratti, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective sensing; Community detection; Geo located Twitter; Global mobility patterns

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; INNOVATION;

COLLECTIVE SENSING; COMMUNITY DETECTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; GEO-LOCATED TWITTER; GLOBAL MOBILITY; INTERNATIONAL MOBILITIES; INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL; TOURISM STATISTICS; LOCATION SHARING SERVICES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERNET; MOBILITY; TOURISM; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; SOCIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL RECORD;

EID: 84900413501     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2014.890072     Document Type: Article

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