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Computable social patterns from sparse sensor data

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We present a computational framework to automatically discover high-order temporal social patterns from very noisy and sparse location data. We introduce the concept of social footprint and present a method to construct a codebook, enabling the transformation of raw sensor data into a collection of social pages. Each page captures social activities of a user over regular time period, and represented as a sequence of encoded footprints. Computable patterns are then defined as repeated structures found in these sequences. To do so, we appeal to modeling tools in document analysis and propose a Latent Social theme Dirichlet Allocation (LSDA) model -- a version of the Ngram topic model in [6] with extra modeling of personal context. This model can be viewed as a Bayesian clustering method, jointly discovering temporal collocation of footprints and exploiting statistical strength across social pages, to automatically discovery high-order patterns. Alternatively, it can be viewed as a dimensionality reduction method where the reduced latent space can be interpreted as the hidden social 'theme' -- a more abstract perception of user's daily activities. Applying this framework to a real-world noisy dataset collected over 1.5 years, we show that many useful and interesting patterns can be computed. Interpretable social themes can also be deduced from the discovered patterns.

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      LOCWEB '08: Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web
      April 2008
      192 pages
      ISBN:9781605581606
      DOI:10.1145/1367798
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      1. latent Dirichlet allocation
      2. social footprints
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