Abstract
We coin the term geoMobile data to emphasize datasets that exhibit geo-spatial features reflective of human behaviors. We propose and develop an EPIC framework to mine latent patterns from geoMobile data and provide meaningful interpretations: we first ‘E’xtract latent features from high dimensional geoMobile datasets via Laplacian Eigenmaps and perform clustering in this latent feature space; we then use a state-of-the-art visualization technique to ‘P’roject these latent features into 2D space; and finally we obtain meaningful ‘I’nterpretations by ‘C’ulling cluster-specific significant feature-set. We illustrate that the local space contraction property of our approach is most superior than other major dimension reduction techniques. Using diverse real-world geoMobile datasets, we show the efficacy of our framework via three case studies.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2771-2798 |
Number of pages | 28 |
Journal | World Wide Web |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported in part by DoD ARO MURI Award W911NF-12-1-0385, DTRA grant HDTRA1- 14-1-0040, NSF grant CNS-1411636, CNS-1618339 and CNS-1617729.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- Data mining
- Epic
- Feature distributions
- GeoMobile
- Latent patterns
- Regional patterns