Exploratory pattern mining on social media using geo-references and social tagging information
Martin Atzmueller, Florian Lemmerich · International Journal of Web Science · 2013
This paper presents exploratory pattern mining techniques for describing communities of resources (e.g., images) and for characterising locations of interest.We utilise tagging information and collaborative geo-reference annotations for characterising resources locations by a set of descriptive patterns.The methods are embedded into an interactive approach for mining, browsing and visualising a set of patterns.As an exemplary use case, we focus on the social photo sharing application Flickr.Utilising publicly available real-world data from this platform, we provide a structural evaluation of the automatic approach as well as an exemplary case study for demonstrating the effectiveness and validity of the interactive approach.