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Table 1 High level notation

From: Real-time spatio-temporal event detection on geotagged social media

\(p_x\)

A social media post \(p_x\)

\(t_x\)

Timestamp of post \(p_x\)

\(l_x\)

Location of post \(p_x\)

\(f_x\)

Features of post \(p_x\)

\({\mathcal {S}}\)

A data stream of posts as a set, \({\mathcal {S}} = \{p_1, p_2, \dotsc , p_n\}\)

\({\mathcal {W}}\)

A window (e.g. of size m), \({\mathcal {W}} = \{p_{n-m+1}, \dotsc , p_n\}\subset {\mathcal {S}}\)

\({\mathcal {E}}\)

A set of posts \({\mathcal {E}} \subseteq {\mathcal {W}}\) that represents a spatio-temporal event