Real-time Local Event Detection in Geo-tagged Tweet Stream

Undergraduate Research Assistant, supervised by Prof J, Han (UIUC, CS)

  • Participated in formalizing and optimizing the novel RLED algorithm.
  • Conducted data preprocessing and entity extraction on geo-tagged real tweets datasets.
  • Reviewed the literation and implemented two baseline algorithms including “Online localized event detection” and “event detection through wavelet-based spatial analysis”.

Paper submitted: RLED