Applied visual exploration on real-time news feeds using polarity and geo-spatial analysis

Miloš Krstajić, Peter Bak, Daniela Oelke, Daniel A. Keim, Martin Atkinson, William Ribarsky

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Abstract

This paper presents a visual analytics approach to explore large news article collections in the domains of polarity and spatial analysis. The exploration is performed on the data collected with Europe Media Monitor (EMM), a system which monitors over 2500 online sources and processes 90,000 articles per day. By analyzing the news feeds, we want to find out which topics are important in different countries and what is the general polarity of the articles within these topics. To assess the polarity of a news article, automatic techniques for polarity analysis are employed and the results are represented using Literature Fingerprinting for visualization. In the spatial description of the news feeds, every article can be represented by two geographic attributes, the news origin and the location of the event itself. In order to assess these spatial properties of news articles, we conducted our geo-analysis, which is able to cope with the size and spatial distribution of the data. Within this application framework, we show opportunities how real-time news feed data can be analyzed efficiently.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWEBIST 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology
Pages263-268
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 10 Sep 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2010 - Valencia, Spain
Duration: 7 Apr 201010 Apr 2010

Publication series

NameWEBIST 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology
Volume1

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2010
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period7/04/1010/04/10

Keywords

  • News feed application
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Spatiotemporal analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems

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