TY - GEN
T1 - GeoHashViz
T2 - 4th Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, XSEDE 2015
AU - Soltani, Kiumars
AU - Parameswaran, Aditya
AU - Wang, Shaowen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/7/26
Y1 - 2015/7/26
N2 - Since its birth in 2006, Twitter has evolved to a multi- purpose social media that attracts hundreds of millions of users to share their activities and ideas on a daily basis. The potential of capturing fine-grained activity log of users, combined with ever increasing geographical information derived from GPS-enabled devices, has made Twitter data a valuable source for spatiotemporal analysis of human activities. One of the early innovations of Twitter is the use of hash- Tag as a unique tagging mechanism to provide additional information about a user post. From its emergence in late 2007, hashtags have been used extensively to express ideas, group tweets and report events among Twitter users. The increasing popularity of hashtags, in addition to their simple and concise structure, has inspired multiple recent studies to propose hashtag as a medium to assess diffusion of ideas in a virtual world. Studying collective eFFort of users in making a hashtag go viral can shed light on the complex process of idea diffusion that involves psychological, sociological and geographical elements.
AB - Since its birth in 2006, Twitter has evolved to a multi- purpose social media that attracts hundreds of millions of users to share their activities and ideas on a daily basis. The potential of capturing fine-grained activity log of users, combined with ever increasing geographical information derived from GPS-enabled devices, has made Twitter data a valuable source for spatiotemporal analysis of human activities. One of the early innovations of Twitter is the use of hash- Tag as a unique tagging mechanism to provide additional information about a user post. From its emergence in late 2007, hashtags have been used extensively to express ideas, group tweets and report events among Twitter users. The increasing popularity of hashtags, in addition to their simple and concise structure, has inspired multiple recent studies to propose hashtag as a medium to assess diffusion of ideas in a virtual world. Studying collective eFFort of users in making a hashtag go viral can shed light on the complex process of idea diffusion that involves psychological, sociological and geographical elements.
KW - Cybergis
KW - Geohashviz
KW - Hadoop
KW - Interactive visualization
KW - Social media
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U2 - 10.1145/1235
DO - 10.1145/1235
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84942810732
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the XSEDE 2015 Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 26 July 2015 through 30 July 2015
ER -