SPOT: Locating Social Media Users Based on Social Network Context

Summary: SPOT estimates user locations from social network context at scale. It compares three models—friend-based baseline, social closeness, and energy/local coefficient—with a confidence-based iteration, demonstrated on Twitter and Gowalla with a web UI. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10850
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2014
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Overall Rank: 13,414 | 6.69%
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