Demography of twitter users in the city of London: An exploratory spatial data analysis approach

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 199-211

  Hofer, Barbara ^a   Lampoltshammer, Thomas J ^a,b   Belgiu, Mariana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b SALZBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Demography; Exploratory spatial data analysis; Geolocated tweets

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAPS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPLORATORY SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS; GEOLOCATED TWEETS; NIGHT TIME; ORDINARY LEAST-SQUARES REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME-PERIODS; WORK ANALYSIS;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84961320537     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07926-4_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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