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Exploring urban lifestyles using a nonparametric temporal graphical model
We propose a new unsupervised nonparametric temporal
topic model to discover lifestyle patterns from location-based
social networks. By relating the textual content, time stamps,
and venue categories associated to user check-ins, our framework
detects the predominant lifestyle patterns in a given geographic
region. The temporal component of our model allows
us to analyse the evolution of lifestyle patterns throughout
the year. We provide examples of interesting patterns
that have been discovered by our model, and we show that
our model compares favourably to existing approaches in
terms of lifestyle pattern quality and computation time. We
also quantitatively show that our model outperforms existing
methods in a time stamp prediction task