Big Data has emerged in the past few years as a new paradigm providing abundant data
and opportunities to improve and/or enable research and decision-support applications with …

A voluminous and complex amount of information—'big data'—from social media such as
Twitter and Flickr is now ubiquitous and of increasing interest to researchers studying …

Since an ever-increasing part of the population makes use of social media in their day-to-
day lives, social media data is being analysed in many different disciplines. The social …

Big data analytics has recently emerged as an important research area due to the popularity
of the Internet and the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies. Moreover, the proliferation and …

Spatiotemporal data mining (STDM) discovers useful patterns from the dynamic interplay
between space and time. Several available surveys capture STDM advances and report a …

Mobile location data has emerged as a valuable data source for studying human mobility
patterns in various contexts, including virus spreading, urban planning, and hazard …

The purpose of this research is to investigate the status and the evolution of the scientific
studies for the effect of social networks on big data and usage of big data for modeling the …

During natural disasters, people use social media platforms to share their opinions and
general information about the event. Here, we investigate the public response to large and …

COVID-19 has emerged as a global pandemic caused by its highly transmissible nature
during the incubation period. In the absence of vaccination, containment is seen as the best …

This study introduces a multi-step methodology for analyzing social media data during the
post-disaster recovery phase of Hurricane Sandy. Its outputs include identification of the …