Population bias in geotagged tweets

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-15-18, Issue , 2015, Pages 18-27

  Malik, Momin M ^a   Lamba, Hemank ^a   Nakos, Constantine ^a   Pfeffer, Jürgen ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

HIGH RESOLUTION; NUMBER OF FACTORS; POPULATION DATA; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SPATIAL MODELS; URBAN AREAS; YOUNG PEOPLES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84964589060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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