Journal
CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE
Volume 45, Issue 5, Pages 420-437Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2017.1370391
Keywords
Social media analytics; geovisual analytics; big data; spatiotemporal analysis; overview plus detail
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- US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Geospatial Research Laboratory [W912HZ-12-P0334]
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SensePlace3 (SP3) is a geovisual analytics framework and web application that supports overview+detail analysis of social media, focusing on extracting meaningful information from the Twitterverse. SP3 leverages social media related to crisis events. It differs from most existing systems by enabling an analyst to obtain place-relevant information from tweets that have implicit as well as explicit geography. Specifically, SP3 includes not just the ability to utilize the explicit geography of geolocated tweets but also analyze implicit geography by recognizing and geolocating references in both tweet text, which indicates locations tweeted about, and in Twitter profiles, which indicates locations affiliated with users. Key features of SP3 reported here include flexible search and filtering capabilities to support information foraging; an ingest, processing, and indexing pipeline that produces near real-time access for big streaming data; and a novel strategy for implementing a web-based multi-view visual interface with dynamic linking of entities across views. The SP3 system architecture was designed to support crisis management applications, but its design flexibility makes it easily adaptable to other domains. We also report on a user study that provided input to SP3 interface design and suggests next steps for effective spatiotemporal analytics using social media sources.
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