Predicting crowd behavior with big public data

WWW 2014 Companion - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 625-630

  Kallus, Nathan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd behavior; Event extraction; Forecasting; Online activism; Sentiment analysis; Temporal analytics; Twitter analysis; Web and social media mining

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; FORECASTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WORLD WIDE WEB;

CROWD BEHAVIOR; EVENT EXTRACTION; ONLINE ACTIVISM; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA MININGS; TEMPORAL ANALYTICS; TWITTER ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84962551296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2567948.2579233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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