visualizing communication on social media: making big data acessible
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Visualizing Communication on Social Media:
Making Big Data AccessibleKarissa McKelvey, Alex Rudnick
Michael Conover and Filippo Menczer
Center for Complex Networks and Systems ResearchSchool of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University, Bloomington
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Can we use social media as laboratories for social
science?
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Social Scientists
Computer Scientists
?
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Enables the study of discourse in large-scale social media by collecting, analyzing, classifying, visualizing, and modeling massive streams of public micro-blogging data
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#tcot
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Meme
Hashtag
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Meme
Hashtag
User
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Meme
Hashtag
User
URL
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Meme
Hashtag
User
URL
Phrase
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celebrities
spam
astroturf
politics
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politics
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#tcot
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celebrities
politics
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@barackobama
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celebrities
spam
astroturf
politics
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@bek_rt
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network structure
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political affiliation
network structure
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political affiliation
language detection
network structure
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sentiment
political affiliation
language detection
network structure
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Existing visualizations
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New Visualizations
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New Visualizations
Interactive Meme Diffusion Network
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#tcot
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#tcot#tcot
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#tcot#tcot
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#tcot#tcot
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#tcot#tcot
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#tcot#tcot
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#tcot#tcot
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#tcot#tcot
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#usa
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New Visualizations
User Data Exploration Interface
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Future Work
Time
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Future Work
Space
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Future Work
Feedback
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ThanksPapers at cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/truthy
Sandro Flammini
Bruno Conçalves
Jacob Ratkiewicz
Lilian Weng
Mike Conover
Johan Bollen
Przemek Grabowicz
Mark Meiss
Alex Vespignani
Alex Rudnick
Luca Aiello
Filippo Menczer
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Content injection• Please follow @username for an outstanding progressive voice!
#p2 #dems #prog #democrats #tcot
• Couple Aborts Twin Boys For Being Wrong Gender .. http://bit.ly/xyz #tcot #hhrs #christian #tlot #teaparty #sgp #p2 #prolife
Importance of content stream (hashtagtag) t in group A
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Predicting Political Alignment
1000 manually labeled users
Features AccuracyText (TF-IDF) 79%
Hashtags 91%
Retweet network 95%
Tags + Network 95%
LSA (users-tags)
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Cross-ideological interactions
Valence of a hashtag
#dems#p2#healthcare#dreamact
#sgp#twisters#foxnews#abortion
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Competition for attention
• Some memes go viral, most do not• Is this due to intrinsic value of memes?
User activity, popularity, influence? Topic persistence? Homophily? External media?...
#jan25