A new model to quantify the impact of a topic in a location over time with Social Media

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Highlights：

• A method to quantify the impact of a topic over time in a location is proposed.

• We adopt the Recency, Frequency and Monetary model to ease the application.

• We introduce the concept of Social Media Engagement and Exposure to a topic.

• Our system harvests and processes geo-located Twitter to create the impact metrics.

• For the evaluation, we discussed the application to different real-world topics.

摘要

•A method to quantify the impact of a topic over time in a location is proposed.•We adopt the Recency, Frequency and Monetary model to ease the application.•We introduce the concept of Social Media Engagement and Exposure to a topic.•Our system harvests and processes geo-located Twitter to create the impact metrics.•For the evaluation, we discussed the application to different real-world topics.

论文关键词：Social Media impact,Topic Engagement,Topic Exposure,Social Media sensor,Geo-located Social Media,Social network analysis,RFM,Information extraction

论文评审过程：Available online 19 December 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.11.067