ISSS608 2016 17T1 Group4 Report
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Motivation of the application
There is huge amount of data in the Social networks in the present times. More communication and expression of views are happening within the network than ever before. These networks define an important societal element. Twitter is one such prominent directed network, where information can be posted as tweets; short but influential messages. When key events occur, this is probably the first place one gets to see the buzz, the trends, status and the direction. For stake holders, this information is key. Tweets are voluminous and text rich. Mining this information, defining the business use case and the insights required is a challenge. The US 2016 Elections took the attention of the world during this time. On the day of 2016 US presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news with 40 million tweets.
Objective
Using Visual analytics techniques and applications we want to answer these question.
- What were the key ideas in the tweets, namely #tags that were most mentioned.
- To which users, @mentions in the twitter network, did these #tags relate to. In the given tweets, compare and analyse the association between the #tags and the @user mentions.
Review and critic on past works
Data
Downloaded 19K tweets from www.followthehashtag.com for popular USElections 2016 hashtags. Apart from the actual tweet content, the data had other attributes such as , associated #tag, user mentions, frequncy of retweets, media mentions and location. With some study the key attributes for Visual analysis were identified.
- #tags
- @mentions
- tweet content
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Design framework
A detail description of the design principles used and data visualisation elements built.
Demonstration
Sample test cases
Discussion
What has the audience learned from your work? What new insights or practices has your system enabled? A full blown user study is not expected, but informal observations of use that help evaluate your system are encouraged.
Future Work
A description of how your system could be extended or refined.
