Mar 10 2017
In the recently released “The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology” we were asked to write a brief entry entitled “geovisualization of social media“. Below is a summary of our chapter: The proliferation of social media over the last decade is presenting substantial computational challenges associated with the management, processing, analysis […]
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Nov 04 2016
Continuing our work with crowdsourcing and geosocial analysis we recently had a paper published in a special issue of the Built Environment journal entitled “User-Generated Big Data and Urban Morphology.” The theme of the special issue is: “Big Data and the City” which was guest edited by Mike Batty and includes 12 papers. To quote […]
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Apr 06 2016
Following on with our GeoSocial Analysis work, we recently had a paper published in PLOS ONE entitled “Crowdsourcing A Collective Sense of Place.” In the paper we discuss and showcase how one can take a quantitative approach to derive a collective sense of place from Twitter contributions and also from corresponding Wikipedia entries.To illustrate this […]
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Mar 29 2016
We recently received word that we had a paper accepted for the upcoming 2016 International Conference on Social Media and Society entitled “Accuracy Of User-Contributed Image Tagging In Flickr: A Natural Disaster Case Study.” In the paper we assess the reliability of user-generated tags during a natural disaster event. Below you read the abstract of […]
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