[Air-L] Research on Twitter - a couple of questions

[Monica Barratt]

Thank you to all who have contributed. Your collective knowledge and
papers really helps here.

I don't get the impression that the authors of this paper I'm
reviewing have any idea of the complexity of these issues. Although
I've reviewed less than 10 papers in my career thus far, this may be
the first one I ever reject. I think they need to go back to the
drawing board if they really want to utilise Twitter data in a
sensible way. At least I can point them to the issues they need to
consider and what they might do in a future paper...

Thanks again. We have an amazing resource here!

Cheers
Monica

On 18 January 2012 03:52, Yuri Takhteyev <yuri at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> in Twitter user profiles. We found that 34% of users did not provide real
>> location information, frequently incorporating fake locations or sarcastic
>> comments that can fool traditional geographic information tools. [....]"
>
> We found more or less the same.
>
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2011.05.006
>
> Additionally, a lot of the data that did point to real places was
> often presented in form that would not be easy to locate
> automatically, e.g., "Floss Angeles" or even "Floss Town (LA)". We
> ended up geocoding our sample by hand.
>
>  - yuri