TY - CHAP TI - Determining the similarity between US cities using a gravity model for search engine query data. AB - In this paper we use the gravity model to estimate the similarity of US cities based on data provided by Google Trends (GT). GT allows to look up search terms and to obtain ranked lists of US cities according to the relative frequencies of requests for each term. The occurences of the US cities on these ranked lists are used to determine the similarities with the gravity model. As search terms for GT serve dictionaries derived from the General Inquirer (GI), containing the categories Economy and Politics/Legal. The estimated similarity scores are visualized with multidimensional scaling (MDS). AF - Algorithms from and for Nature and Life - Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, PP - Wien PB - Springer SP - 243 EP - 250 UR - http://www.springerprofessional.de/024---determining-the-similarity-between-us-cities-using-a-gravity-model-for-search-engine-query-data/4647580.html PY - 2013-10-01 AU - Hofmarcher, Paul AU - GrĂ¼n, Bettina AU - Hornik, Kurt AU - Mair, Patrick ER -