Big location-based social media messages from China's Sina Weibo network: Collection, storage, visualization, and potential ways of analysis

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 825-834

  Jendryke, Michael ^a   Balz, Timo ^a,b   Liao, Mingsheng ^a,b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wuhan University   (China)

Author keywords

big data; data collection; location based services; Social Media

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIG DATA; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA VISUALIZATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; LOCATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; VISUALIZATION;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA MESSAGES; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; LOCATION BASED; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; SINA-WEIBO; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; STORAGE POTENTIAL; STORAGE VISUALIZATION;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

CENSUS; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA TRANSMISSION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL DATA; VISUALIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 85015257937     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12266     Document Type: Article

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