Event detection using twitter: A spatio-temporal approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Cheng, Tao ^a   Wicks, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DISASTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LIFE EVENT; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPACE TIME SCAN STATISTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWITTER; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNET; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISASTERS; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNET; LONDON; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902437074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097807     Document Type: Article

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