Extracting Personal Behavioral Patterns from Geo-Referenced Tweets
City Research Online (City University London)Published 1 January 2013Open access
Georg Fuchs, Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Piotr Jankowski
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An exploratory study of the potential of geo-referenced Twitter data for extracting knowledge about significant personal places, behaviors and potential interests of people in the greater Seattle area is presented.
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This paper presents an exploratory study of the potential of geo-referenced Twitter data for extracting knowledge about significant personal places, behaviors and potential interests of people. The study was done analysing two months’ worth of tweets from residents of the greater Seattle area.
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