Twitter as an indicator for whereabouts of people? Correlating Twitter with UK census data

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 54, Issue , 2015, Pages 255-265

  Steiger, Enrico ^a   Westerholt, René ^a   Resch, Bernd ^a   Zipf, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing of human activities; LBSN; Semantic topic modeling; Spatial autocorrelation; Twitter

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LBSN; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; TOPIC MODELING; TWITTER;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AUTOCORRELATION; CENSUS; INTERNET; MOBILITY; MODELING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN SOCIETY;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84940177188     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.09.007     Document Type: Article

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