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Situation detection and control using spatio-temporal analysis of microblogs

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Large volumes of spatio-temporal-thematic data being created using sites like Twitter and Jaiku, can potentially be combined to detect events, and understand various 'situations' as they are evolving at different spatio-temporal granularity across the world. Taking inspiration from traditional image pixels which represent aggregation of photon energies at a location, we consider aggregation of user interest levels at different geo-locations as social pixels. Combining such pixels spatio-temporally allows for creation of social images and video. Here, we describe how the use of relevant (media processing inspired) situation detection operators upon such 'images', and domain based rules can be used to decide relevant control actions. The ideas are showcased using a Swine flu monitoring application which uses Twitter data.

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Q. Mei et al. "A Probabilistic Approach to Spatiotemporal Theme Pattern Mining on Weblogs", in WWW'06.
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M. Nagarajan et al. "Spatio-Temporal-Thematic Analysis of Citizen Sensor Data: Challenges and Experiences", in WISE'09.
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J. Ginsberg et al. "Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data". Nature, 457(7232):1012--1014, 2008.

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    WWW '10: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
    April 2010
    1407 pages
    ISBN:9781605587998
    DOI:10.1145/1772690

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    Published: 26 April 2010

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    1. control
    2. event
    3. microblogs
    4. situation
    5. twitter

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    WWW '10: The 19th International World Wide Web Conference
    April 26 - 30, 2010
    North Carolina, Raleigh, USA

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