Paper Info
Title
Talking Places: Modelling and Analysing Linguistic Content in Foursquare
Abstract
The advent of online social media and the growing popularity of sensor-equipped mobile devices have created a vast landscape of location-aware applications and services. This goldmine of data, including temporal and spatial information of unprecedented granularity, can help researchers gain insights into the behavioural patterns of people at a global scale. Here we analyse the textual content of millions of comments published alongside Foursquare user check-ins. For this, we extend a standard topic modelling approach so that it explicitly takes into account geographic and temporal side information. The framework is applied to Foursquare data and used to detect the dominant topics in the neighbourhoods of a city. In particular, we present the most prominent topics discussed by Foursquare users in New York, London, Chicago and San Francisco. We characterize the topics' spatial coverage and temporal evolution, and we also highlight some cultural idiosyncrasies. Finally, we evaluate the novel spatio-temporal topic model quantitatively. We believe that our model may be a useful tool for social scientists and application developers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.107
PASSAT), 2012 International Conference and 2012 International Confernece Social Computing
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
novel spatio-temporal topic model,dominant topic,temporal side information,prominent topic,foursquare user check-ins,social scientist,foursquare user,temporal evolution,online social media,analysing linguistic content,foursquare data,content management,social network analysis,mobile computing,linguistics,topic models,behavioural sciences,internet
Conference
978-1-4673-5638-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.59
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sandro Bauer1473.75
Anastasios Noulas2116253.35
Diarmuid Ó. Seaghdha3100.59
Stephen Clark42369162.42
Cecilia Mascolo55856342.94