The document describes a database management project called "Tweets Vault" that analyzes a user's favorite tweets to determine the most influential users and tweets. It proposes calculating influence scores based on factors like retweet counts, and visualizing the data using a treemap that positions more influential items in the top-left with stronger colors. The project involves crawling Twitter data, storing it in a MySQL database, and building visualizations with PHP, JavaScript, and HTML.

1. Fall 2011
Database Management Project
Tweets Vault
Eungchan Kim
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979251703

2. http://www.great-seo.co.uk/link-
strategy/social-computing-for-link-building/ http://www.great-seo.co.uk/link-
strategy/social-computing-for-link-
building/
Who is the most influential people to me?
Who gives useful information to me?

4. 575 favorites
46 favorites

5. Centrality
answer to “Which is the most important, or
central, node in a network?”

6. Influential Tweet
can be simply defined as its retweet number.

7. My Favorite Tweets
Influential User
depends on how many s/he
has influential tweets in my
favorite tweets list.

8. My Favorite Tweets
Influential User
depends on how many s/he
has influential tweets in my
favorite tweets list.

9. My Favorite Tweets
Influential User
depends on how many s/he
has influential tweets in my
favorite tweets list.
Influential Score 3 1 1

10. Treemap Visualization
1) Size
The bigger square, the more influential user/tweet.
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11. Treemap Visualization
2) Position
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Left-Upper position is
for more influential
user/tweet. 4
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12. Treemap Visualization
3) Color
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Strong color tends to
be more influential.
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but this application does not apply this concept.

13. Development Procedure
Crawling Favorite Tweets
Creating MySQL DB
Inserting into the DB
Python / MySQL

14. Development Procedure
Crawling Favorite Tweets
Creating MySQL DB
Inserting into the DB
Python / MySQL
Visualizing Favorites Tweets
HTML/PHP/Javascript

15. Post
User s Tweet

16. Favorite
e
has many posts many
User Tweet
has a favorites many
Favoriter

17. E-R Diagram

18. Sample Query

19. Sample Query

20. Prototype
Tweets Vault
http://newsmap.jp

21. Demo Video