GIS Graduate Program Webinar: Big Social Data Analysis
Thursday, October 30, 2014 · 12 - 1 PM
Online
UMBC's Geographic Information Systems Graduate Program Presents: Big Social Data Analysis: Using Location & Twitter to Explore the Tragic Aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting.
GIS program faculty member, Rich Heimann, will present a case study during the webinar.
Categorization is a common pursuit in data analysis. Its goal is to discover largely homogonized structures in data using supervised or unsupervised ways of learning. The discovery of these structures can be learned when the data generating process is stationary over space. This case study will outline (1) how effective natural language processing can be in exposing these structures, (2) how critical a geographic perspective is when analyzing data over space, and (3) the utility of Twitter in social science research.