A scalable framework for spatiotemporal analysis of location-based social media data

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 70-82

  Cao, Guofeng ^a   Wang, Shaowen ^b   Hwang, Myunghwa ^b   Padmanabhan, Anand ^b   Zhang, Zhenhua ^b   Soltani, Kiumars ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; CyberGIS; Data cube; OLAP; Social media

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIG DATA; DYNAMICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; CYBERGIS; DATA CUBE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; OLAP; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA MODELING;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

GIS; INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84922628529     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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