Flickr data for analysing tourists’ spatial behaviour and movement patterns : A comparison of clustering techniques

• The purpose of this study is to analyse the suitability of photo-sharing platforms, such as Flickr, to extract relevant knowledge on tourists’ spatial movement and point of interest (POI) visitation behaviour and compare the most prominent clustering approaches to identify POIs in various application scenarios.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Big data

Photo sharing

Flickr

Spatial movement patterns

DBSCAN

k-means clustering

Association rules

FP-growth

GSP

Sequential pattern mining

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)