Urban Social Listening Potential and Pitfalls for Using Microbloggin
This book analyses new software tools and social media data that can be used to explore the attitudes of people in urban places. It reports on the findings of several research projects that have have experimented with using microbloggi
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Urban Social Listening
Justin B. Hollander • Erin Graves • Henry Renski Cara Foster-Karim • Andrew Wiley • Dibyendu Das
Urban Social Listening Potential and Pitfalls of Using Microblogging Data in Studying Cities
Justin B. Hollander Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Cara Foster-Karim Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Erin Graves Urban Planner and Sociologist Cambridge, USA
Andrew Wiley Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Henry Renski University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Dibyendu Das Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-59490-7 ISBN 978-1-137-59491-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59491-4
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are very grateful to Tufts University’s Office of the Vice Provost through the Tufts Collaborates! Grant Program for initial support of this research and to our colleagues on that book project, Profs. Tama Leventhal and Natalya Zaika. More advanced stages of the research from this book were supported by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (grant UJH080714); special thanks go to Armando Carbonell. We appreciate the generosity of IBM in providing us with a gratis one-year license of SPSS Modeler; special thanks also go to Dr. Jeffrey Nichols at IBM for his early help in downloading tweets. Early versions of some of these chapters were presented at The Big Data and Urban Informatics Workshop, University of Illinois (August 2014), and at the Associ
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