Beschreibung:
This book analyses new software tools and social media data that can be used to explore the attitudes of people in urban places. It reports on the findings of several research projects that have have experimented with using microblogging data in conjunction with diverse quantitative and qualitative methods, including content analysis and advanced multivariate statistics.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A Short History of Big Data Analysis.- Chapter 3. Taking Microblogging Data for a Test Drive.- Chapter 4. A Close Look at Urban Immigrant Communities.- Chapter 5. A National Comparison: Twitter vs. The American Housing Survey.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.