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Ostinato: The Exploration-Automation Cycle of User-Centric, Process-Automated Data-Driven Visual Network Analytics

Authors : Jukka Huhtamäki, Martha G. Russell, Neil Rubens, Kaisa Still

Published in: Transparency in Social Media

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Network analysis is a valuable method for investigating and mapping the social structure driving phenomena and sharing the findings with others. The interactive visual analytics approach transforms data into views that allow the visual exploration of the structures and processes of networks represented by data, therefore increasing the transparency of editorial processes on social media as well as networked structures in innovation ecosystems and other phenomena. Although existing tools have opened many new exploratory opportunities, new tools in development promise investigators even greater freedom to interact with the data, refine and analyze the data, and explore alternative explanations for networked processes. This chapter presents the Ostinato Model—an iterative, user-centric, process-automated model for data-driven visual network analytics. The Ostinato Model simultaneously supports the automation of the process and enables interactive and transparent exploration. The model has two phases, Data Collection and Refinement and Network Creation and Analysis. The Data Collection and Refinement phase is further divided into Entity Index Creation, Web/API Crawling, Scraping, and Data Aggregation. The Network Construction and Analysis phase is composed of Filtering in Entities, Node and Edge Creation, Metrics Calculation, Node and Edge Filtering, Entity Index Refinement, Layout Processing and Visual Properties Configuration. A cycle of exploration and automation characterizes the model and is embedded in each phase.

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Title: Ostinato: The Exploration-Automation Cycle of User-Centric, Process-Automated Data-Driven Visual Network Analytics
Authors: Jukka Huhtamäki
Martha G. Russell
Neil Rubens
Kaisa Still
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Transparency in Social Media
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-18551-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-18552-1

Copyright Year: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18552-1_11

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