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20192023
most citedInteractive Learning for Identifying Relevant Tweets to Support Real-time Situational Awareness

59 citations · 162 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.HC2023

Alternatives to Contour Visualizations for Power Systems Data

Isaiah Lyons-Galante, Morteza Karimzadeh, Samantha Molnar +2

Electrical grids are geographical and topological structures whose voltage states are challenging to represent accurately and efficiently for visual analysis. The current common pr…

stat.AP2023★ 3 cited

Increasing the Spatial Coverage of Atmospheric Aerosol Depth Measurements Using Random Forest and Mean Filters

Zhongying Wang, Rafael Pires de Lima, James L. Crooks +2

Aerosols play a critical role in atmospheric chemistry, and affect clouds, climate, and human health. However, the spatial coverage of satellite-derived aerosol optical depth (AOD)…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

A spatiotemporal machine learning approach to forecasting COVID-19 incidence at the county level in the USA

Benjamin Lucas, Behzad Vahedi, Morteza Karimzadeh

With COVID-19 affecting every country globally and changing everyday life, the ability to forecast the spread of the disease is more important than any previous epidemic. The conve…

cs.DB2020

STULL: Unbiased Online Sampling for Visual Exploration of Large Spatiotemporal Data

Guizhen Wang, Jingjing Guo, Mingjie Tang +6

Online sampling-supported visual analytics is increasingly important, as it allows users to explore large datasets with acceptable approximate answers at interactive rates. However…

cs.HC2019★ 1 cited

Geovisual Analytics and Interactive Machine Learning for Situational Awareness

Morteza Karimzadeh, Luke S. Snyder, David S. Ebert

The first responder community has traditionally relied on calls from the public, officially-provided geographic information and maps for coordinating actions on the ground. The ubi…

cs.SI2019★ 13 cited

City-level Geolocation of Tweets for Real-time Visual Analytics

Luke S. Snyder, Morteza Karimzadeh, Ray Chen +1

Real-time tweets can provide useful information on evolving events and situations. Geotagged tweets are especially useful, as they indicate the location of origin and provide geogr…

cs.HC2019★ 1 cited

Route Packing: Geospatially-Accurate Visualization of Route Networks

Jieqiong Zhao, Morteza Karimzadeh, Hanye Xu +5

We present route packing, a novel (geo)visualization technique for displaying several routes simultaneously on a geographic map while preserving the geospatial layout, identity, di…

cs.SI2019

Situational Awareness Enhanced through Social Media Analytics: A Survey of First Responders

Luke S. Snyder, Morteza Karimzadeh, Christina Stober +1

Social media data has been increasingly used to facilitate situational awareness during events and emergencies such as natural disasters. While researchers have investigated severa…

cs.HC2019★ 28 cited

FeatureExplorer: Interactive Feature Selection and Exploration of Regression Models for Hyperspectral Images

Jieqiong Zhao, Morteza Karimzadeh, Ali Masjedi +4

Feature selection is used in machine learning to improve predictions, decrease computation time, reduce noise, and tune models based on limited sample data. In this article, we pre…

cs.SI2019★ 59 cited

Interactive Learning for Identifying Relevant Tweets to Support Real-time Situational Awareness

Luke S. Snyder, Yi-Shan Lin, Morteza Karimzadeh +2

Various domain users are increasingly leveraging real-time social media data to gain rapid situational awareness. However, due to the high noise in the deluge of data, effectively…

cs.HC2019★ 14 cited

MetricsVis: A Visual Analytics System for Evaluating Employee Performance in Public Safety Agencies

Jieqiong Zhao, Morteza Karimzadeh, Luke S. Snyder +3

Evaluating employee performance in organizations with varying workloads and tasks is challenging. Specifically, it is important to understand how quantitative measurements of emplo…

cs.HC2019★ 29 cited

VASSL: A Visual Analytics Toolkit for Social Spambot Labeling

Mosab Khayat, Morteza Karimzadeh, Jieqiong Zhao +1

Social media platforms such as Twitter are filled with social spambots. Detecting these malicious accounts is essential, yet challenging, as they continually evolve and evade tradi…

cs.HC2019★ 13 cited

The Validity, Generalizability and Feasibility of Summative Evaluation Methods in Visual Analytics

Mosab Khayat, Morteza Karimzadeh, David S. Ebert +1

Many evaluation methods have been used to assess the usefulness of Visual Analytics (VA) solutions. These methods stem from a variety of origins with different assumptions and goal…