4. Key terms
Home location: Base location of the tweet. i.e.“China”
Destinations: Locations explicitly mentioned in the tweet. Ie.( Lebanon, Paris)
Conversational bias: Bias relevant to one conversation.
Conversational profile of a country: Where a country lies in the conversation
zone model.
A user from china tweets: Pray for Paris, pray for Lebanon, pray for the world.
5. Motivation
A visual representation of conversational bias.
The need for adjacent or parallel geographies
online. Is cyberspace really independent?
6. Aims and Objectives
two key contributions:
comprehensive 3D visualization
Visual footprint and conversational bias.
15. a) Machine learning and visualization
The dataset ( Paris2015, Rio2016, world2016)
300,000 tweets for Paris2015,
400,000 for Rio2016
500,000 for World2016
78% accuracy at country-level granularity
Mean distance error: 13%.