Visual network analysis of twitter data for co-organizing conferences: Case CMAD 2013

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1474-1483

  Jussila, Jari ^a   Huhtamäki, Jukka ^a   Henttonen, Kaisa ^b   Kärkkäinen, Hannu ^a   Still, Kaisa ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84902296089     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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