Chapter Eight

Spatial heat-wave assessments using geotagged Twitter data

Daisuke Murakami 1 , and Yoshiki Yamagata 2       1 The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan      2 Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Abstract

This chapter introduces a twitter data application to a heatwave analysis. Section 8.1 introduces our discussion emphasizing on statistical modeling combining different types of spatial data. Section 8.2 introduces the twitter data and their processing. Section 8.3 explains our analysis method, and Section 8.4 applies this method to a heatwave analysis. Section 8.5 concludes our discussion.

Keywords

Geotagged tweets; ...

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