VacationFinder: A tool for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing geotagged Twitter data to find top vacation spots

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks, LBSN 2014 - Held in conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 9-12

  Alowibdi, Jalal S ^a,b   Ghani, Sohaib ^a   Mokbel, Mohamed F ^c  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LOCATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY; LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES; LOCATION-BASED APPLICATIONS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL QUERYING; USER ACTIVITY; VACATION SPOTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84964072916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2755492.2755495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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