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Title: Web-Based Visual Analytics for Social Media

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OSTI ID:1051196

Social media provides a rich source of data that reflects current trends and public opinion on a multitude of topics. The data can be harvested from Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, and other social applications. The high rate of adoption of social media has created a domain that has an ever expanding volume of data that make it difficult to use the raw data for analysis. Information visual analytics is key in drawing out features of interest in social media. The Scalable Reasoning System is an application that couples a back end server performing analysis algorithms and an intuitive front end visualization to allow for investigation. We provide a componentized system that can be rapidly adapted to customer needs such that the information they are most interested in is brought to their attention through the application. To this end, we have developed a social media application for use by emergency operations for the city of Seattle to show current weather and traffic trends which is important for their tasks.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1051196
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-86200; 400904120; TRN: US201218%%1301
Resource Relation:
Conference: Proceedings of the Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, June 4-6, 2012, Dublin, Ireland
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English