Includes bibliographical references.

Twenty years of network science : a bibliographic and co-authorship network analysis -- Impact of locational factors on business ratings/reviews : a yelp and TripAdvisor study -- Identifying reliable recommenders in users' collaborating filtering and social neighbourhoods -- Safe travelling period recommendation to high attack risk European destinations based on past attack information -- Analyzing cyber influence campaigns on YouTube using YouTubeTracker -- Blog data analytics using blogtrackers -- Using social media surveillance in order to enhance the effectiveness of crew members in search and rescue missions -- Visual exploration and debugging of machine learning classification over social media data -- Efficient and flexible compression of very sparse networks of big data -- Weather big data analytics : seeking motifs in multivariate weather data -- Analysis of link prediction algorithms in hashtag graphs.

Using Social Media Surveillance in Order to Enhance the Effectiveness of Crew Members in Search and Rescue Missions.

This edited book provides techniques which address various aspects of big data collection and analysis from social media platforms and beyond. It covers efficient compression of large networks, link prediction in hashtag graphs, visual exploration of social media data, identifying motifs in multivariate data, social media surveillance to enhance search and rescue missions, recommenders for collaborative filtering and safe travel plans to high risk destinations, analysis of cyber influence campaigns on YouTube, impact of location on business rating, bibliographical and co-authorship network analysis, and blog data analytics. All these trending topics form a major part of the state of the art in social media and big data analytics. Thus, this edited book may be considered as a valuable source for readers interested in grasping some of the most recent advancements in this high trending domain.