The geography of Twitter topics in London

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 58, Issue , 2016, Pages 85-96

  Lansley, Guy ^a   Longley, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geotemporal; Latent Dirichlet Allocation; Social media; Topic modelling; Twitter

Indexed keywords

STATISTICS;

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; GEOTEMPORAL; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE SURVEY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ALGORITHM; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84962905600     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2016.04.002     Document Type: Article

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