Geovisual analytics approach to exploring public political discourse on twitter

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 337-366

  Nelson, Jonathan K ^a   Quinn, Sterling ^a   Swedberg, Brian ^a   Chu, Wanghuan ^a   MacEachren, Alan M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Cartographic display; Discourse analysis; Geovisual analytics; Multiscale visualization; Politics; Twitter; User evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948950152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4010337     Document Type: Article

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