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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Tweets from Justin Bieber's heart: the dynamics of the location field in user profiles
Little research exists on one of the most common, oldest, and most utilized forms of online social geographic information: the “location” field found in most virtual community...
Brent Hecht, Lichan Hong, Bongwon Suh, Ed H. Chi
DGO
2011
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13 years 9 months ago
Social media use by government: from the routine to the critical
Social media (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) and other services with user-generated content have made a staggering amount of information (and misinformation) available....
Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Edward A. Fox, Steven D. Shee...
ICDCS
2011
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
E-Shadow: Lubricating Social Interaction Using Mobile Phones
—In this paper, we propose E-Shadow, a distributed mobile phone-based local social networking system. E-Shadow has two main components: (1) Local profiles. They enable EShadow u...
Jin Teng, Boying Zhang, Xinfeng Li, Xiaole Bai, Do...

Book
778views
16 years 8 months ago
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
"Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. GPs have received increased attention in the machine-learning...
Carl Edward Rasmussen and Christopher K. I. Willia...
GIS
2008
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Mining user similarity based on location history
The pervasiveness of location-acquisition technologies (GPS, GSM networks, etc.) enable people to conveniently log the location histories they visited with spatio-temporal data. T...
Quannan Li, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Yukun Chen, Wenyu ...