Taming uncertainty in big data: Evidence from social media in urban areas

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 279-288

  Bendler, Johannes ^a   Wagner, Sebastian ^a   Brandt, Tobias ^a   Neumann, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big data; Points of interest; Social media; Spatio temporal patterns; Uncertainty; Veracity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907189977     PISSN: 23637005     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-014-0342-4     Document Type: Article

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