Network of the Day: Aggregating and Visualizing Entity Networks from Online Sources

Darina Benikova, Uli Fahrer, Gabriel Alexander, Manuel Kaufmann, Seid Muhie Yimam, Tatiana von Landesberger, Chris Biemann · HilDok – Institutional Repository (Universität Hildesheim) · 2014

This software demonstration paper presents a project on the interactive visualization of social media data.The data presentation fuses German Twitter data and a social relation network extracted from German online news.Such fusion allows for comparative analysis of the two types of media.Our system will additionally enable users to explore relationships between named entities, and to investigate events as they develop over time.Cooperative tagging of relationships is enabled through the active involvement of users.The system is available online for a broad user audience.

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