Describing story evolution from dynamic information streams

Stuart Rose, Scott Butner, Wendy Cowley, Michelle Gregory, Julia Walker

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Abstract

Sources of streaming information, such as news syndicates, publish information continuously. Information portals and news aggregators list the latest information from around the world enabling information consumers to easily identify events in the past 24 hours. The volume and velocity of these streams causes information from prior days to quickly vanish despite its utility in providing an informative context for interpreting new information. Few capabilities exist to support an individual attempting to identify or understand trends and changes from streaming information over time. The burden of retaining prior information and integrating with the new is left to the skills, determination, and discipline of each individual. In this paper we present a visual analytics system for linking essential content from information streams over time into dynamic stories that develop and change over multiple days. We describe particular challenges to the analysis of streaming information and present a fundamental visual representation for showing story change and evolution over time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVAST 09 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Proceedings
Pages99-106
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
EventVAST 09 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology - Atlantic City, NJ, United States
Duration: Oct 12 2009Oct 13 2009

Publication series

NameVAST 09 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceVAST 09 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlantic City, NJ
Period10/12/0910/13/09

Keywords

  • H.3.1 [content analysis and indexing]: abstracting methods
  • H.3.3 [information search and retrieval]: information filtering
  • H.3.7 [digital libraries]: user issues
  • I.3.3 [computer graphics]: picture/image generation

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