Lab Members Participated in Data Visualization Competition

Lab Members Participated in Data Visualization Competition

Lab member, Hai Liang (4th year PhD student), with Cui Anyong (MA student in CNM) and other two master students in creative media participated in Visualizing Global Marathon 2012 early of this month. By analyzing 70,000 tweets on 2012 US presidential election using Natural Language Processing techniques, they visualized the evolutionary process of users’ discourse over 16 days before the election. Click here to view the work: http://visualizing.org/full-screen/44693. The Visualizing Global Marathon brought together the global student community for an intense, fun, and thought-provoking event with live talks, tutorials, and Q&A sessions. Over 1000 students from 176 universities and 38 countries across the world interacted on our Live Dashboard and delivered insight and solutions on monitoring disease outbreaks, understanding the global flights network, and contextualizing the 2012 U.S. presidential election.