You are what you eat (and Drink): Identifying cultural boundaries by analyzing food and drink habits in foursquare

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 466-475

  Silva, Thiago H ^a   Vaz De Melo, Pedro O S ^a   Almeida, Jussara ^a   Musolesi, Mirco ^b   Loureiro, Antonio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; CULTURAL ASPECTS; CULTURAL BOUNDARIES; DISTANCE MEASURE; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; SOCIAL APPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL SAMPLES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84909972055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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