Using Google Trends, Gaussian Mixture Models and DBSCAN for the estimation of Twitter user home location

In this work we propose a novel approach to estimate the home location of Twitter users. Given a list of Twitter users, we extract their timelines (up to 3,200) using the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) service. We use Google Trends to obtain a list of cities in which the nouns of a...

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Main Author: Zola, Paola (author)
Other Authors: Cortez, Paulo (author), Tesconi, Maurizio (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/68509
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/68509