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Previous studies have shown that Twitter users have biases to tweet from certain locations, locational bias, and during certain hours, temporal bias. We used three years of geolocated Twitter Data to quantify these biases and test our…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Aiman Soliman , Kiumars Soltani , Anand Padmanabhan , Shaowen Wang

We present a new algorithm for inferring the home location of Twitter users at different granularities, including city, state, time zone or geographic region, using the content of users tweets and their tweeting behavior. Unlike existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Jalal Mahmud , Jeffrey Nichols , Clemens Drews

In current study, a mechanism to extract traffic related information such as congestion and incidents from textual data from the internet is proposed. The current source of data is Twitter. As the data being considered is extremely large in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-20 Chandra Khatri

The advent of geographic online social networks such as Foursquare, where users voluntarily signal their current location, opens the door to powerful studies on human movement. In particular the fine granularity of the location data, with…

The information collected by mobile phone operators can be considered as the most detailed information on human mobility across a large part of the population. The study of the dynamics of human mobility using the collected geolocations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Nicolas Ponieman , Alejo Salles , Carlos Sarraute

The massive amounts of geolocation data collected from mobile phone records has sparked an ongoing effort to understand and predict the mobility patterns of human beings. In this work, we study the extent to which social phenomena are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-18 Nicolas Ponieman , Alejo Salles , Carlos Sarraute

Geolocating Twitter users---the task of identifying their home locations---serves a wide range of community and business applications such as managing natural crises, journalism, and public health. Many approaches have been proposed for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Ahmed Mourad , Falk Scholer , Walid Magdy , Mark Sanderson

The geolocation of online information is an essential component in any geospatial application. While most of the previous work on geolocation has focused on Twitter, in this paper we quantify and compare the performance of text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Konstantinos Pappas , Mahmoud Azab , Rada Mihalcea

Describing the dynamics of a city is a crucial step to both understanding the human activity in urban environments and to planning and designing cities accordingly. Here we describe the collective dynamics of New York City and surrounding…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-03 Urbano França , Hiroki Sayama , Colin McSwiggen , Roozbeh Daneshvar , Yaneer Bar-Yam

Studies of human mobility increasingly rely on digital sensing, the large-scale recording of human activity facilitated by digital technologies. Questions of variability and population representativity, however, in patterns seen from these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-06 Enwei Zhu , Maham Khan , Philipp Kats , Shreya Santosh Bamne , Stanislav Sobolevsky

Twitter is a useful resource to analyze peoples' opinions on various topics. Often these topics are correlated or associated with locations from where these Tweet posts are made. For example, restaurant owners may need to know where their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Florina Dutt , Subhajit Das

This research is aimed to solve the tweet/user geolocation prediction task and provide a flexible methodology for the geotagging of textual big data. The suggested approach implements neural networks for natural language processing (NLP) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Kateryna Lutsai , Christoph H. Lampert

The pervasive use of new mobile devices has allowed a better characterization in space and time of human concentrations and mobility in general. Besides its theoretical interest, describing mobility is of great importance for a number of…

The need for a comprehensive study to explore various aspects of online social media has been instigated by many researchers. This paper gives an insight into the social platform, Twitter. In this present work, we have illustrated stepwise…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Mohammad Muzammil Khan , M. Afshar Alam

In the widely used message platform Twitter, about 2% of the tweets contains the geographical location through exact GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude). Knowing the location of a tweet is useful for many data analytics questions. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Han van der Veen , Djoerd Hiemstra , Tijs van den Broek , Michel Ehrenhard , Ariana Need

The outbreak of COVID-19 highlights the need for a more harmonized, less privacy-concerning, easily accessible approach to monitoring the human mobility that has been proved to be associated with the viral transmission. In this study, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Xiao Huang , Zhenlong Li , Yuqin Jiang , Xiaoming Li , Dwayne Porter

Geotagging on social media has become an important proxy for understanding people's mobility and social events. Research that uses geotags to infer public opinions relies on several key assumptions about the behavior of geotagged and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Binxuan Huang , Kathleen M. Carley

Predicting the geographical location of users on social networks like Twitter is an active research topic with plenty of methods proposed so far. Most of the existing work follows either a content-based or a network-based approach. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Tien Huu Do , Duc Minh Nguyen , Evaggelia Tsiligianni , Bruno Cornelis , Nikos Deligiannis

Large scale analysis and statistics of socio-technical systems that just a few short years ago would have required the use of consistent economic and human resources can nowadays be conveniently performed by mining the enormous amount of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-23 Delia Mocanu , Andrea Baronchelli , Bruno Gonçalves , Nicola Perra , Alessandro Vespignani

Twitter is often used in quantitative studies that identify geographically-preferred topics, writing styles, and entities. These studies rely on either GPS coordinates attached to individual messages, or on the user-supplied location field…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Umashanthi Pavalanathan , Jacob Eisenstein