Sub: Disaster and Social Media – Topic Extraction for the Great Japan East Earthquake using Data Mining Technique
Date: 01 March 2012
No. of participants: 42 ( IEEE members: 11 non members: 31)
Venue: Cochin University of Science & Technology
Prof. Takako gave an overview of the Social Media Analysis stressing on Semantic extraction from Social Computing. She presented the case study of how the behaviour was influended when people used social media to acquire information after the disaster – the great earthquake occured in Mar 2011 in Japan. Data mining techniques in analysing the social media was discussed. She detailed how directed graphs were used to model the topic structures. The experimental results was shared along with a demo of visualisation of graph using Gephi tool.
There was a good interaction as the the audience were mostly researchers working in various Data mining techniques and there was a great interest for them to know how the data was colleceted and processed. Prof. K.Poulose Jacob, Director School of Computer Sciences welcomed Prof. Takakao and Dr. G.Santhosh Kumar, Asst. Professor proposed the vote of thanks.