Performing Social Media: Artistic Approaches to Analyzing Big Data

Using 3D Printing to Visualize Social Media Big Data

Big data volume continues to grow at unprecedented rates. One of the key features that makes big data valuable is the promise to find unknown patterns or correlations that may be able to improve the quality of processes or systems. Unfortunately, with the exponential growth in data, users often have difficulty in visualizing the often-unstructured, nonhomogeneous data coming from a variety of s...

Visualizing Communication on Social Media: Making Big Data Accessible

The broad adoption of the web as a communication medium has made it possible to study social behavior at a new scale. With social media networks such as Twitter, we can collect large data sets of online discourse. Social science researchers and journalists, however, may not have tools available to make sense of large amounts of data or of the structure of large social networks. In this paper, w...

Processing unstructured documents and social media using Big Data techniques

Big Data Analysis of News and Social Media Content

The analysis of media content has been central in social sciences, due to the key role that media plays in shaping public opinion. This kind of analysis typically relies on the preliminary coding of the text being examined, a step that involves reading and annotating it, and that limits the sizes of the corpora that can be analysed. The use of modern technologies from Artificial Intelligence al...

“Social Media and Forced Displacement: Big Data Analytics & Machine-Learning”