Geotagging one hundred million Twitter accounts with total variation minimization

Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE Big Data 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 393-401

  Compton, Ryan ^a   Jurgens, David ^a   Allen, David ^a  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Optimization; Social and Information Networks

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GEO-TAGGING; INFORMATION NETWORKS; LOCATION INFORMATION; LOCATION SHARING; OPTIMISATIONS; SOCIAL AND INFORMATION NETWORK; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOTAL VARIATION MINIMIZATION; USER INDEPENDENTS; USER LOCATION;

LOCATION;

EID: 84921749960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BigData.2014.7004256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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