WeiboEvents: A Crowd Sourcing Weibo Visual Analytic System

Author

Donghao Ren ; Xin Zhang ; Zhenhuang Wang ; Jing Li ; Xiaoru Yuan

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Machine Perception (Minist. of Educ.), Peking Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

4-7 March 2014

Firstpage

330

Lastpage

334

Abstract

In this work, we propose a visual analytic system for analyzing events of Weibo, a Chinese-version microblog service. We build a system which consists of two interfaces: a web-based online visualization interface for public users and an offline expert visual analytic system which wraps the online one and provides additional analysis functions. The online interface provides an intuitive and powerful retweet tree visualization which inspires users´ creativity. The expert system adopts public users´ analysis results collected from the web interface, and can visualize and analyze Weibo events to a deeper extent.

Keywords

Web sites; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; tree data structures; Chinese-version microblog service; Web-based online visualization interface; WeiboEvents; crowd sourcing Weibo visual analytic system; offline expert visual analytic system; public users; retweet tree visualization; Collaboration; Data visualization; Expert systems; Layout; Twitter; Visual analytics; Graph/Network Data; Miscellaneous; Public Policy Issues; Time Series Data; User InterfaceGraphical User Interfaces; Visualization for the Masses; Weibo Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2014 IEEE Pacific

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PacificVis.2014.38

Filename

6787192