Review of Data Visualization for Social Media Postings

  • Authors

    • Nur Atiqah Sia Abdullah
    • Hamizah Binti Anuar
    2018-12-03
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.27613
  • Data Visualization, Social Media, Perception, Emotion, Data Representation.

  • Abstract

    Facebook and Twitter are the most popular social media platforms among netizen. People are now more aggressive to express their opinions, perceptions, and emotions through social media platforms. These massive data provide great value for the data analyst to understand patterns and emotions related to a certain issue. Mining the data needs techniques and time, therefore data visualization becomes trending in representing these types of information. This paper aims to review data visualization studies that involved data from social media postings. Past literature used node-link diagram, node-link tree, directed graph, line graph, heatmap, and stream graph to represent the data collected from the social media platforms. An analysis by comparing the social media data types, representation, and data visualization techniques is carried out based on the previous studies. This paper critically discussed the comparison and provides a suggestion for the suitability of data visualization based on the type of social media data in hand.    

     

     

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    Atiqah Sia Abdullah, N., & Binti Anuar, H. (2018). Review of Data Visualization for Social Media Postings. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.38), 939-943. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.27613

    Received date: 2019-02-20

    Accepted date: 2019-02-20

    Published date: 2018-12-03