Consistency Across Geosocial Media Platforms

Carsten Keßler; Grant McKenzie

doi:10.34726/lbs2019.57

Consistency Across Geosocial Media Platforms

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Abstract

The increasing use of geosocial media in research to draw quantitative and qualitative conclusions about urban environments bears questions
about the consistency of the data across the different platforms. This paper
therefore presents an initial comparative analysis of data from six different
geosocial media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Foursquare, Flickr,
and Instagram) for Washington, D.C., using population and zoning data for
reference. We find that there is little consistency between the different platforms at small spatial units and even semantically rich datasets have severe
limitations when predicting functional zones in a city. The results show that
researchers need to carefully evaluate which platform they can use for a particular study, and that more work is needed to better understand the differences between the different platforms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Location-Based Services : Vienna, Austria on 11—13 November 2019
Editors	Georg Gartner, Haosheng Huang
Number of pages	6
Publisher	ICA
Publication date	2019
Pages	213-218
Article number	1
Chapter	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.34726/lbs2019.57
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	15th International Conference on Location Based Services - Technical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria Duration: 11 Nov 2019 → 13 Nov 2019 Conference number: 15 https://lbsconference.org

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Conference	15th International Conference on Location Based Services
Number	15
Location	Technical University of Vienna
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Wien
Period	11/11/2019 → 13/11/2019
Internet address	https://lbsconference.org

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Consistency Across Geosocial Media Platforms
Carsten Keßler (Lecturer)
12 Nov 2019
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Keßler, C & McKenzie, G 2019, Consistency Across Geosocial Media Platforms. in G Gartner & H Huang (eds), Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Location-Based Services: Vienna, Austria on 11—13 November 2019., 1, ICA, pp. 213-218, 15th International Conference on Location Based Services, Wien, Austria, 11/11/2019. https://doi.org/10.34726/lbs2019.57

Consistency Across Geosocial Media Platforms. / Keßler, Carsten; McKenzie, Grant.

Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Location-Based Services: Vienna, Austria on 11—13 November 2019. ed. / Georg Gartner; Haosheng Huang. ICA, 2019. p. 213-218 1.

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