keepr demo at mit civic media lab
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Keepr demo
MIT Center for Civic Media
Hong QuNieman Visiting Fellow
April 11, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Agenda
About me
Project overview
Previous research
Eddi
Twitter trends detection
Demo and feedback
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About me
2003 2006 2011 2012
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Project overviewKeepr is a tool for journalists to data mine breaking news in social media to get highlights as events are unfolding.
Topic discovery
Entity extractions
keywords, users, links, media
Search query expansion
Design process
https://hackpad.com/About-Keepr-9Ns5vU6e8V7
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Eddi project
Eddi: interactive topic-based browsing of social status streamsMichael H. Bernstein, Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Jilin Chen, Sanjay Kairam, Ed H. Chi
UIST '10: Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2010), pp. 303-312
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcUVQa1uqcg
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Twitter trends detection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duHxpSTmwW0&t=3m35s
Video Lecture: Kostas T. on How To Detect Twitter Trends
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Demohttp://www.keepr.com/demo
“from:cnnbrk OR from:breakingnews OR from:BBCBreaking OR from:AP+BREAKING:”
100recenttweets
Topicdiscovery
Search for news
100recenttweets
OR
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Email alerthttps://ifttt.com/recipes/89115
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Concept of “breaking news””
Narrative
Broadcast MediaJudgment call“newsworthy”
Fill in Context“news gathering”
Niche Media
Eventhappens
Amplify
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