Tag: Scale

  • GIScience Colloquium talk on Event Detection from Geo-tagged Twitter Data by Diao Lin

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk State of the Art of Event Detection from Geo-tagged Twitter Data Diao Lin Chair of Cartography, Technical University of Munich Time and date: Mon, November 27, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University The speaker tries to give…

  • Twitter location (sometimes) matters

    In contrast to photo-based VGI (e.g. Flickr) the correlation between the place where an information has been created and what the information is about is less intuitive for text-based VGI. In order to gain more insight into the relationship between text information generated in mobile contexts (e.g. via smartphones) and their recorded location, research has…