Area-Based Topic Modeling and Visualization of Social Media for Qualitative GIS

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1028-1039

  Martin, Michael E ^a   Schuurman, Nadine ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

big data; qualitative GIS; social media analysis; topic model; visualization

Indexed keywords

GIS; MODELING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL DATA; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 85017102034     PISSN: 24694452     EISSN: 24694460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1293499     Document Type: Article

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