Estimating the physical location of Twitter users with the von Mises-Fisher distribution (Mike Izbicki, UC Riverside)
Emmy Noether Room, Millikan 1021, Pomona College 610 N. College Ave., ClaremontApproximately 500 million tweets are sent everyday. Scientists monitor these tweets to predict the spread of disease, better allocate social welfare services, help first responders during natural disasters, and many other important tasks. […]