IntelliViz : a tool for visualizing social networks with hashtags

Visualizing a real-time social network, such as from Twitter, can potentially discover the patterns and insight of actors’ interconnectedness and interactions according to the links between actors and activities. This paper presents a novel system for an intelligent and interactive visualization of social networks with hashtags. We provide a flexible, animated and simple, yet powerful, visualization to represent activities, relations and networks of involvers associated with hashtags. The system consists of multiple phases, including data collection and processing, and interactive visualization with intelligence. Early experimental results indicate its effectiveness for real-time analyzing the property of dynamic networks based on hashtags