We conducted an interpretive, qualitative research study to investigate herding behavior around trending posts about disasters on Sina Weibo, one of the most popular social media websites in China. Our preliminary results show that in response to uncertain situations, users engage in sensemaking (Seidel, 2013) and become emotionally engaged (Taylor, 2015) as they converge around trending posts ...

Social media data carries abundant hidden occurrences of real-time events in the world which raises the demand for efficient event detection and trending system. The Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) technique is capable of processing the large-scale big datasets. In this thesis, a novel framework is proposed for detecting and trending events from tweet clusters presence in Twitter 1 dataset tha...

Performance management addresses the provision of a consistent acceptable service at a known and controlled cost, both now and in the foreseeable future. This requires the measurement and monitoring of current behavior, the management and storage of those measurements, the analysis of past and present behavior, the trending of past behavior and the prediction of future behavior in the light of ...

This paper studies the trending behavior of COVID-19 dynamics in Israeli cities. The model employed is used to describe, for each city, accumulated number cases, cases per day, and predicted final cases. innovative analysis adopted here based on daily evolution infections, estimated with data available until a given date. results discussed are illustrative six cities Israel, including Jerusalem...

Unlike popular videos, which would have already achieved high viewership numbers by the time they are declared popular, YouTube trending videos represent content that targets viewers’ attention over a relatively short time, and has the potential of becoming popular. Despite their importance and visibility, YouTube trending videos have not been studied or analyzed thoroughly. In this paper, we p...