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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIASanta Barbara
Aether
Real-time Recovery and Visualization of Deleted Tweets
A Project submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirementsfor the degree of Master of Science in Media Arts & Technologies byPehr Lorand HoveyCommittee in charge:Professor George Legrady, Chair Professor Lisa JevbrattProfessor Alan LiuJune 2010
The project of Pehr Lorand Hovey is approved. _____________________________________________________ George Legrady, Committee Chair _____________________________________________________ Lisa Jevbratt _____________________________________________________ Alan LiuJune 2010
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Aether
Real-time Recovery and Visualization of Deleted Tweets
Copyright © 2010 byPehr Lorand Hovey
Sections
« prev | next »- 1 Introduction
- 1.1. Problem Statement
- 1.2. Relevance of the Research
- 2. Related Work
- 2.1. Human Condition Online
- 2.2. Research on Twitter
- 2.3. Saving Online Data
- 2.4. Software for Data Aggregation & Visualization
- 3.2. Metrics for Understanding Deleted Tweets
- 3.3. Designing a Data Gathering Framework
- Figure 1: Aether server data flow
- 3.3.1. Grab: receiving and storing Tweets & Users
- Figure 2: Sample Twitter deletion notice (JSON)
- Figure 3: Excerpt from Twitter status object (JSON)
- 3.3.2. Retrieve: Looking Back into the Archive
- 3.3.3. React: Interacting with Client Applications
- 3.3.4. Utility Stages
- Figure 4: Example of RateMonitor output
- 3.4. Client applications
- Figure 5: Event data sent to clients (JSON)
- 4. Visualizing Deleted Tweets
- 4.1. User-centric Visualization
- 4.1.1. SparkTimeline
- Figure 6: SparkTimeline widget
- 4.1.2. UserDetails
- Figure 7: Biographical Information in UserDetails widget
- 4.1.3. Lifetime
- Figure 9: Lifetime widget
- 4.1.4. Departure
- Figure 10: Departure widget
- 4.2. Content-centric Visualization
- 4.2.1. RecentText
- Figure 11: RecentText widget
- 4.2.2. WordFrequency
- Figure 13: Full User-centric Visualization
- 5. Discussion
- 5.1. The Nature of Internet Speech
- 5.2. Analyzing Deleted Tweets
- 5.3. Natural Language Processing for Twitter Data
- 5.4. Design Assumptions
- 5.5. Technical Performance Considerations and Results
- 5.6. Future Work
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Appendix
- A) Twitter Data
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