Tuesday 3 September 2013

Scalable Distributed Event Detection for Twitter

Social media streams, such as Twitter, have shown themselves to be useful sources of real-time information about what is happening in the world. Automatic detection and tracking of events identified in these streams have a variety of real-world applications, e.g. identifying and automatically reporting road accidents for emergency services. However, to be useful, events need to be identified within the stream with a very low latency. This is challenging due to the high volume of posts within these social streams. In this paper, we propose a novel event detection approach that can both effectively detect events within social streams like Twitter and can scale to thousands of posts every second. Through experimentation on a large Twitter dataset, we show that our approach can process the equivalent to the full Twitter Firehose stream, while maintaining event detection accuracy and outperforming an alternative distributed event detection system.

Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Miles Osborne, Sasa Petrovic
Scalable Distributed Event Detection for Twitter
In Proceedings of the IEEE Big Data Conference 2013

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