Deriving retail centre locations and catchments from geo-tagged Twitter data

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 61, Issue , 2017, Pages 108-118

  Lloyd, Alyson ^a   Cheshire, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer data; Human mobility; Retail; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LOCATION; RUNOFF; SALES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONSUMER DATA; HUMAN MOBILITY; RETAIL; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

COSTS;

ACCESSIBILITY; COMMUTING; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERNET; LOCATION-ALLOCATION MODEL; MOBILITY; RETAILING; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84992756769     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2016.09.006     Document Type: Article

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