Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Shahan A. Memon
Rohith Pillai
Methodology
High-level Observations
POSSIBLE AGENDA SETTERS:
The following article in Washington post regarding
migrant workers was amongst the top 10 citations
across many countries..
DATA COLLECTION :
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No. of URL citations
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
India
GEO TAGGING:
Using Nominatim, we geotagged the tweets as per
their user-defined location
No. of tweets
Motivation
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DATA VISUALIZATION:
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Created tag-clouds
Created heat map
Determined top domains,
hashtags, URLs, etc.
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May
Is Qatars sponsorship
of football clubs and
sport events paying off?
Is Qatar getting the
attention it expects?
What are the key
sources defining or
changing public opinion
about Qatar?
TOP DOMAINS:
The following graphs
illustrate the top 10 regional
distribution of citations of
different news sources
reporting about Qatar. The
radius depicts the intensity of
appearances possibly
defining the public opinion of
that region.
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
6
5
4
3
Ghana
Thailand
2
1
0
Uganda
Kenya
Laos
Nigeria
Qatar
0.6
Chile
Colombia
0.5
Ireland
0.4
0.3
Honduras
Turkey
0.2
New Zealand
0.1
0
Mexico
Denmark
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
United States of
America
Japan
Uruguay
Australia
Kuwait
Finland
Paraguay
Sweden
Guatemala
August
September
October
November
Future Work
PUBLIC DEMO:
Ireland
July
Example Findings
June
Norway
Republic of Serbia
TOPIC MODELING:
Discovering the widelydiscussed topics regarding Qatar around the
world
Canada
United Kingdom
Germany
Adel__Almalki (2067)
laplandes (1714)
prodnose (1651)
thereaIbanksy (1542)
jonsnowC4 (1037)
Adel__Almalki (316)
laplandes (144)
Tim_Roehn (120)
thereaIbanksy (108)
boedefeld_ (81)
SENTIMENT
ANALYSIS:
How positive/negative do
people from different
parts of the world feel
TOP HASHTAGS:
The graph below shows the top hashtag FIFA across 5 countries. The
diameter signifies intensity.
Acknowledgements
Canada
Germany
United Kingdom
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United States of
America
France
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