# Discovering Geo-dependent Stories by Combining Density-based Clustering and Thread-based Aggregation techniques

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11076 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.11076/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 4 of its 36 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 18 Dec 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.00656/) (2017)
- [Towards Real-Time, Country-Level Location Classification of Worldwide Tweets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.07236/) (2016)
- [Geo-located Twitter as the proxy for global mobility patterns](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1311.0680/) (2013)
- [Happiness and the Patterns of Life: A Study of Geolocated Tweets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1304.1296/) (2013)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Citizens are actively interacting with their surroundings, especially through social media. Not only do shared posts give important information about what is happening (from the users' perspective), but also the metadata linked to these posts offer relevant data, such as the GPS-location in Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs). In this paper we introduce a global analysis of the geo-tagged posts in social media which supports (i) the detection of unexpected behavior in the city and (ii) the analysis of the posts to infer what is happening. The former is obtained by applying density-based clustering techniques, whereas the latter is consequence of applying natural language processing. We have applied our methodology to a dataset obtained from Instagram activity in New York City for seven months obtaining promising results. The developed algorithms require very low resources, being able to analyze millions of data-points in commodity hardware in less than one hour without applying complex parallelization techniques. Furthermore, the solution can be easily adapted to other geo-tagged data sources without extra effort.