Personal activity centres and geosocial data analysis: Combining big data with small data

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 145-161

  Robertson, Colin ^a   Feick, Rob ^b   Sykora, Martin ^c   Shankardass, Ketan ^a   Shaughnessy, Krystelle ^d  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering; Geosocial; Personal activity centres; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LOCATION; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; PERSONAL COMPUTING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CLUSTERING; GEOSOCIAL; INDIVIDUAL LEVELS; PERSONAL ACTIVITY CENTRES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL CLUSTERING;

BIG DATA;

EID: 85017514731     PISSN: 18632351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56759-4_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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