WordCrowd is a dynamic location-based service which visualizes and analyzes geolocated social media data. By spatially clustering the data, areas of interest and their descriptions can be extracted and compared on different geographical scales.
Start exploringWhen walking through the city, the application visualizes the nearest areas of interests and people’s thoughts about that area. By aggregating the data based on the country of origin of the original poster, we discover differences and similarities in tourist interest between different countries.
The Wordcrowd application is part of the Eureca project. This collaborative project between Ugent and TU Wien follows the trends towards location-based services (LBS) and personalized/contextualized content and investigates them in the context of cultural heritage collections of European city archives and social media data.
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