Improving the Scalability of Interactive Visualization Systems for Exploring Threaded Conversations
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2019
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Large threaded conversations, such as those found on YCombinator's HackerNews, are typically presented in a way that shows individual comments clearly, but can obscure larger trends or patterns within the conversational corpus. Previous research has addressed this problem through graphical-overviews and NLP-generated summaries. These efforts have generally assumed a particular (and modest) data size, which limits their utility for large or deeply-nested conversations, and often require non-trivial offline processing time, which makes them impractical for day-to-day usage. We describe here Forum Explorer, a Chrome extension that combines and expands upon prior art through a collection of techniques that enable this type of representation to handle wider ranges of data in real time. Materials for this project are available at https://osf.io/nrhqw/.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:eurp.20191144,
booktitle = {EuroVis 2019 - Posters},
editor = {Madeiras Pereira, João and Raidou, Renata Georgia},
title = {{Improving the Scalability of Interactive Visualization Systems for Exploring Threaded Conversations}},
author = {McNutt, Andrew M. and Kindlmann, Gordon L},
year = {2019},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-088-8},
DOI = {10.2312/eurp.20191144}
}