Exploration of geo-tagged photos through data mining approaches

•Propose a points-of-interest associative pattern mining framework.•Extensive case studies with Flickr data in the area of Queensland, Australia.•First time analyzing geo-tagged photos in this study region.

With the development of web technique and social network sites human now can produce information, share with others online easily. Photo-sharing website, Flickr, stores huge number of photos where people upload and share their pictures. This research proposes a framework that is used to extract associative points-of-interest patterns from geo-tagged photos in Queensland, Australia, a popular tourist destination hosting the great Barrier Reef and tropical rain forest. This framework combines two popular data mining techniques: clustering for points-of-interest detection, and association rules mining for associative points-of-interest patterns. We report interesting experimental results and discuss findings.