Real-Time Visual Analysis of High-Volume Social Media Posts

@article{Knittel2021RealTimeVA,
  title={Real-Time Visual Analysis of High-Volume Social Media Posts},
  author={Johannes Knittel and Steffen Koch and Tan Tang and Wei Chen and Yingcai Wu and Shixia Liu and Thomas Ertl},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  year={2021},
  volume={PP},
  pages={1-1}
}
Breaking news and first-hand reports often trend on social media platforms before traditional news outlets cover them. The real-time analysis of posts on such platforms can reveal valuable and timely insights for journalists, politicians, business analysts, and first responders, but the high number and diversity of new posts pose a challenge. In this work, we present an interactive system that enables the visual analysis of streaming social media data on a large scale in real-time. We propose… 
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