92 citations · 104 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
cs.SI2012★ 12 cited
SportSense: Real-Time Detection of NFL Game Events from Twitter
Siqi Zhao, Lin Zhong, Jehan Wickramasuriya +3
We report our experience in building a working system, SportSense (http://www.sportsense.us), which exploits Twitter users as human sensors of the physical world to detect events i…
cs.SI2011★ 92 cited
Human as Real-Time Sensors of Social and Physical Events: A Case Study of Twitter and Sports Games
Siqi Zhao, Lin Zhong, Jehan Wickramasuriya +1
In this work, we study how Twitter can be used as a sensor to detect frequent and diverse social and physical events in real-time. We devise efficient data collection and event rec…