TopicOnTiles: Tile-based spatio-temporal event analytics via exclusive topic modeling on social media

Minsuk Choi; Sungbok Shin; Jinho Choi; Scott Langevin; Christopher Bethune; Philippe Horne; Nathan Kronenfeld; Ramakrishnan Kannan; Barry Drake; Haesun Park; Jaegul Choo

doi:10.1145/3173574.3174157

TopicOnTiles: Tile-based spatio-temporal event analytics via exclusive topic modeling on social media

Minsuk Choi, Sungbok Shin, Jinho Choi, Scott Langevin, Christopher Bethune, Philippe Horne, Nathan Kronenfeld, Ramakrishnan Kannan, Barry Drake, Haesun Park, Jaegul Choo

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Abstract

Detecting anomalous events of a particular area in a timely manner is an important task. Geo-tagged social media data are useful resource for this task, but the abundance of everyday language in them makes this task still challenging. To address such challenges, we present TopicOnTiles, a visual analytics system that can reveal the information relevant to anomalous events in a multi-level tile-based map interface by using social media data. To this end, we adopt and improve a recently proposed topic modeling method that can extract spatio-temporally exclusive topics corresponding to a particular region and a time point. Furthermore, we utilize a tile-based map interface to efficiently handle large-scale data in parallel. Our user interface effectively highlights anomalous tiles using our novel glyph visualization that encodes the degree of anomaly computed by our exclusive topic modeling processes. To show the effectiveness of our system, we present several usage scenarios using real-world datasets as well as comprehensive user study results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Engage with CHI
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206, 9781450356213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174157
Publication status	Published - 2018 Apr 20
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 2018 Apr 21 → 2018 Apr 26

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2018-April

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Other	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	18/4/21 → 18/4/26

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 ACM.

Keywords

Anomalous event detection
Social media
Spatio-temporal data analysis
Visual analytics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Choi, M., Shin, S., Choi, J., Langevin, S., Bethune, C., Horne, P., Kronenfeld, N., Kannan, R., Drake, B., Park, H., & Choo, J. (2018). TopicOnTiles: Tile-based spatio-temporal event analytics via exclusive topic modeling on social media. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2018-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174157

TopicOnTiles: Tile-based spatio-temporal event analytics via exclusive topic modeling on social media. / Choi, Minsuk; Shin, Sungbok; Choi, Jinho et al.
CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2018-April).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Choi, M, Shin, S, Choi, J, Langevin, S, Bethune, C, Horne, P, Kronenfeld, N, Kannan, R, Drake, B, Park, H & Choo, J 2018, TopicOnTiles: Tile-based spatio-temporal event analytics via exclusive topic modeling on social media. in CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 2018-April, Association for Computing Machinery, 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, Montreal, Canada, 18/4/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174157

Choi M, Shin S, Choi J, Langevin S, Bethune C, Horne P et al. TopicOnTiles: Tile-based spatio-temporal event analytics via exclusive topic modeling on social media. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Association for Computing Machinery. 2018. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3173574.3174157

Choi, Minsuk ; Shin, Sungbok ; Choi, Jinho et al. / TopicOnTiles : Tile-based spatio-temporal event analytics via exclusive topic modeling on social media. CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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