The spontaneous behavior in extreme events: A clustering-based quantitative analysis

Ning Shi, Chao Gao, Zili Zhang, Lu Zhong, Jiajin Huang

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Abstract

Social media records the pulse of social discourse and drives human behaviors in temporal and spatial dimensions, as well as the structural characteristics. These online contexts give us an opportunity to understand social perceptions of people in the context of certain events, and can help us improve disaster relief. Taking Twitter as data source, this paper quantitatively measures exogenous and endogenous social influences on collective behaviors in different events based on standard fluctuation scaling method. Different from existing studies utilizing manual keywords to denote events, we apply a clustering-based event analysis to identify the core event and its related episodes in a hashtag network. The statistical results show that exogenous factors drive the amount of information about an event and the endogenous factors play a major role in the propagation of hashtags.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Data Mining and Applications - 9th International Conference, ADMA 2013, Proceedings
Pages336-347
Number of pages12
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2013 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: 14 Dec 201316 Dec 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume8346 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period14/12/1316/12/13

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