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Big data meets journalism:automatic news detection

Sandjai Bhulais.bhulai@vu.nl

Sandjai Bhulai (s.bhulai@vu.nl)

The world of today

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The world of today: social media

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Social media in our daily life

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Social media in our daily life

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Social media in our daily life

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Social media in our daily life

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Twitter to fame

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The old newsroom

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The modern newsroom

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Information overload

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Forecasting news for nu.nl?

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Challenge #1

• How do you get (all) Dutch tweets?

• Twitter has a streaming API• Fair use policy delivers random 1% of the Twitter

stream• Following keywords is allowed

• How much data do you need?• How much data can you get?• How much data can you deal with?• How much data can you store?

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Twitter - popularity

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Challenge #2

• How do you detect trends on Twitter?

• Absolute frequencies of tweets• Relative frequencies of tweets• Speed of tweets• Acceleration of tweets• Seasonal patterns

• We need a real-time algorithm• We need to efficiently handle memory

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Trending topics

1. #PrayforMexico2. #SocialMovies3. #temblor4. Sismo de 7.85. Earthquake in Mexico6. John Elway7. Pat Bowlen8. Marcelo Lagos9. Azcapotzalco10.Niñas de 13 y 14

20 maart 2012, Twitter.com

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Trending topics

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Number of tweets #PrayforMexico

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Challenge #3

• How do you deal with the following tweets?

• “Brand in Amsterdam”• “Vuur in 020”• “Fikkie in A’dam”

• “Ik heb brand gezien”• “Ik zag brand”• “Ik zie brand”

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Visualization

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Visualization

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The final system

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From nu.nl to straks.nl

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The future

• Many challenges ahead:

• How to deal with retweets?• Integration of reputation scores?• Use of profile information?• Advantages of semantic research?• Add feeds of other social media?• Generalize to other languages?• Dependencies of GPS information?• …

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Real-time driver information

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Questions?

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