Visualization research of the tweet diffusion in the microblog network

With the development of big data technology, information visualization plays an increasingly important role in the social network, especially the microblog network. The path of the tweet diffusion shows the relationships among microblog users and constructs a directed network among them. The microblog data mining project and the visualization process of the tweet propagation are described in detail. The visualization results of the tweet propagation indicate that there are two typical transmission path patterns: the dandelion pattern and the double-star pattern. The visualization research may easily discover the key retweeting nodes in the tweet diffusion network.