Identifying, Attributing and Describing Spatial Bursts
Summary: Identifies geographically focused bursts in weblogs and social media; presents efficient algorithms to detect spatial bursts and attribute them to demographics. Describes descriptive keywords for bursts and demonstrates scalability on BlogScope's multi-terabyte text collection. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Michael Mathioudakis (University of Toronto)
- 2. Nilesh Bansal (University of Toronto)
- 3. Nick Koudas (University of Toronto)
BibTeX Citation
@article{mathioudakis_vldb10,
title = {{Identifying, Attributing and Describing Spatial Bursts}},
author = {Mathioudakis, Michael and Bansal, Nilesh and Koudas, Nick},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '10},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
pages = {1091--1100},
doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920978},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920978},
year = {2010}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 3,939 | On the Spatiotemporal Burstiness of Terms | 2012 | VLDB | 6.9147782e-05 |
| 7,010 | Partitioning and Ranking Tagged Data Sources | 2013 | VLDB | 5.6220354e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 700 | Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates | 1999 | VLDB | 0.00014681669 |
| 2,760 | BlogScope: A System for Online Analysis of High Volume Text Streams | 2007 | VLDB | 8.0493804e-05 |
| 5,550 | Parameter Free Bursty Events Detection in Text Streams | 2005 | VLDB | 6.0879624e-05 |
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