Analyzing and visualizing web opinion development and social interactions with density-based clustering

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1144-1155

  Yang, Christopher C ^a,b   Ng, Tobun Dorbin ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Density based clustering; information visualization; social media analytics; social network analysis; web opinion mining

Indexed keywords

DENSITY-BASED CLUSTERING; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; OPINION MINING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80054822467     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2011.2113334     Document Type: Article

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