Gaining historical and international relations insights from social media: spatio-temporal real-world news analysis using Twitter
Journal: EPJ Data Science
Year: 2017

The immense growth of the social Web, which has made a large amount of user data easily and publicly available, has opened a whole new spectrum for research in social behavioral sciences. However, as the volume of social media content increases at a very fast rate, it becomes extremely difficult to systematically obtain high-level information from this data. As a consequence, tasks related to the analysis of historical news events based on social media data have not been explored, which limits a