Mapping Social Media for Transportation Studies

Geolocating social media posts for emergency mapping

Œedemowill illustrate the features of awebGIS interface to support the rapid mapping activities a‰er a natural disaster, with the goal of providing additional information from social media to the mapping operators. Œis demo shows the €rst results of the E2mC H2020 European project, where the goal is to extract precisely located information from available social media sources, providing accurate...

From e-learning to social-learning: Mapping development of studies on social media-supported knowledge management

Social media is bringing great challenges and wonderful opportunities for organizational learning. With support of social media, organizations may facilitate the knowledge management process within firms (e.g., knowledge sharing), then to encourage employees to promote collaborative learning behaviors from e-learning to social learning. There is a significant trend in the recent studies is incr...

Mapping Dialectal Variation by Querying Social Media

We propose a Bayesian method of estimating a conditional distribution of data given metadata (e.g., the usage of a dialectal variant given a location) based on queries from a big data/social media source, such as Twitter. This distribution is structurally equivalent to those built from traditional experimental methods, despite lacking negative examples. Tests using Twitter to investigate the ge...

Social Media Visual Analytics for Emergency Management: A Systematic Mapping

Social media visual analytics are becoming important in helping emergency managers gain situation awareness and make better decisions. In this paper, we present a systematic mapping to understand how the field is structured, find out what research topics exists in social media visual analytics for emergencies, and understand what the visual analytics application categories in this area are. Thi...

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