Interactive visualization of news distribution in blog space

  • Authors:
  • Yasufumi Takama;Akio Matsumura;Tomoki Kajinami

  • Affiliations:
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hino, Tokyo, Japan;Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hino, Tokyo, Japan;Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • New Generation Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper proposes a visualization method of news distribution in Blog space. Recently, Blog is becoming one of the important information resources on the Web, from which trend information can be obtained. On the other hand, online news site is another information resource, which reports latest events in the world. This paper focuses on the combination of both resources, and proposes a method for visualizing news distribution in Blog space, which indicates various access patterns to news articles in Blog space. The types of objects that are to be visualized as well as their relationships are defined, based on which interactive information visualization system is proposed. Experiments with test subjects are performed to investigate the viewpoints they employ for examining news distribution in Blog space. The results show that test subjects can examine news distribution in Blog space from various viewpoints, which affects their estimation of the impacts of news articles.