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[CLICK ON A PUSHPIN TO SEE POPULAR TOPICS FROM A LOCATION, ON CHOSEN DATE.]
This location analysis is based only on tweets which have location metadata (~10% of total volume). Be sure to select both time and region of interest to see spatio-temporal-thematic social signals.

The tag cloud starts by summarizing latest tweets for the event and evolves as new tweets arrive. Only those tweets with location information are shown on the map.

Note: This map and tag cloud are updated to the second based on the Occupy Wall Street Protest activity on Twitter.

Click a section of the chart to view some sentimental tweets.

The following list shows top 100 influential Twitter users while talking about a topic, which can be multi-faceted - thematic,person,organization etc. The following network shows the connectivity among these influential Twitter users about a topic chosen on left menu. Colors denote the user level characteristics such as sentiment polarity for the topic, political affiliation, profession etc. Here, we specifically decided to show the characteristics and connectivity of top users, because they have potential to drive the community for desired actions. (Please check our Insights tab for such examples)

(Click on a user in the list or node in the network to see user profile)

Emerging Community Leaders

User Interaction Network of emerging leaders

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Occupy_Chicago

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Twitris Insights

2012 U.S. Presidential Election

Occupy Wall Street Protest

Interpreting Network Analysis
  1. Why network analysis?
    1. Who are the most influential users talking about Tea Party in OWS?
    2. How do these influential set of users connect among themselves and what type of users they are- journalists, politics enthusiast, activists, etc. [If they are strongly connected, their view-point has power to revolutionize community dynamics]
    3. How and why does community evolve in such movement (*Extension of the current widget) We provide context specific influencers and their interaction network tools to answer these questions.
  2. Why a strongly connected influencer community of people talking about Tea Party as compared to Republican or Democrats?
    1. Tea Party supporters have greater presence in OWS movement http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203503204577037980400569026.html
    2. Who are the emerging leaders in such communities?
      • Top 10 are dominated by Politics and Journalism enthusiasts
  3. Barack Obama is ranked lesser than other democrat enthusiasts in democrats topical community, Why?
    • Because community is being driven by other emerging leaders in the current context and not by established but casually engaged leaders!
  4. Why community for OccupyLA is less sparsed than for OccupyChicago?
    • OccupyLA is highly organized and active community as compared to OccupyChicago. Even facebook page for OccupyLA reflects such activism.
  5. How will you assist the coordination of the organizing team using such tool?
    • Lets say, its a scenario of emergency response:
      • Identify influencers in the community of resources providers and needs
      • Identify bridges connecting pre-defined informal communities, which can be leveraged for aid in emergency time
      • Identify the engagement potential of influencer by interaction network

Data Stats

Occupy Wall Street Event (Feb 2 2012)

  • Total number of processed tweets: 4.1 M
  • Total number of spotted entities: 1.6 M
  • Total number of spotted hashtags: 9 M
  • Total number of extracted URLs: 2.2 M
  • Total number of Twitter users: 0.6 M

Exploring OWS

Question 1: "Who are the dead people that are mentioned in the context of OWS movement?"

Answers:

  1. Rosa Parks: 639 times
    "The people looking down on #OWS protesters are the ones who would've looked at Rosa Parks and said "Why can't you just take a seat?""
  2. Howard Zinn: 415 times
    "Howard Zinn on Anarchism and Marxism-: http://t.co/H6YTlf1Z #occupywallstreet #occupyoakland #gbtv #tcot The New Left #ocra RT @boogiefinger"

Question 2: "What are the different professions of the people being mentioned in the OWS movement?"

Answers:

  1. Benjamin Franklin, Politician
    "RT @Think_Quotes_: He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. - Benjamin Franklin #OWS #Occupy"

Tag Cloud Reports News for Occupy Oakland

Context (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street#January_2012):

January 29 -- Occupy Oakland protesters marched to occupy a vacant building for a community center and new HQ. The police deployed tear gas, flash grenades, and rubber bullets and protesters responded with flares and bottles. The protesters noted the increased level of violence of police and lack of dispersal orders or exit routes. Later, more than 300 protesters were arrested in an afternoon march. Some who escaped arrest entered City Hall, stole an American flag from the City Council chamber and set it on fire.

What is Twitris+?

A Semantic Social Web application with real-time monitoring and multi-faceted analysis of social signals to provide insights and a framework for situational awareness, in-depth event analysis and coordination, emergency response aid, reputation management etc.

Why Twitris+?

Users are sharing voluminous social data (800M+ active Facebook users, 1B+ tweets/week) through social networking platforms accessible by Web and increasingly via mobile devices. This gives unprecedented opportunity to decision makers-- from corporate analysts to coordinators during emergencies, to answer questions or take actions related to a broad variety of activities and situations: who should they really engage with, how to prioritize posts for actions in the voluminous data stream, what are the needs and who are the resource providers in emergency event, how is corporate brand performing, and does the customer support adequately serve the needs while managing corporate reputation etc. We demonstrate these capabilities using Twitris+.

Key Features

  1. Decision making analytics platform for multi-faceted analyses of social data: spatio-temporal-thematic, people-content-network, sentiment-emotion-subjectivity etc.
  2. Answering questions of interests to corporate analysts and event coordinators
  3. Extraction of insights from social signals: Aggregation and filtering of social data, web resources (news, Wikipedia pages, multimedia), SMS data, followed by applying background knowledge to perform multi-faced analyses.
  4. Applications beyond state-of-the-art research in social-computing, such as in Health 2.0, cyber-physical systems etc.

Research Details

Team:

Alan Smith, Ashutosh Jadhav, Hemant Purohit, Lu Chen, Michael Cooney, Pavan Kapanipathi, Pramod Anatharam, Wenbo Wang (Past Members: Karthik Gomadam, Meena Nagarajan)

Supervision:

Prof. Amit Sheth

Demo Video

Articles and Resources

Digital Flicks (February 10, 2012)

Twitris-Semantic Social Web Application

Wright State University News Room (November 14, 2011)

Wright State research seeks sense from social media to aid in emergencies

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