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Estimating the physical location of Twitter users with the von Mises-Fisher distribution (Mike Izbicki, UC Riverside)
Estimating the physical location of Twitter users with the von Mises-Fisher distribution (Mike Izbicki, UC Riverside)
Approximately 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. A key step in each of these tasks is estimating the location the tweet was sent from. In this talk, I discuss how to combine machine […]