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SOCIAL SENSOR: AN ANALYSIS TOOL FOR SOCIAL MEDIA

International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies

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Title SOCIAL SENSOR: AN ANALYSIS TOOL FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
 
Creator Wu, Chun-Hsiao; National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Li, Tsai-Yen; National Chengchi University, Taiwan
 
Subject Social Sensor; Social Media; Data Science; Big Data Analysis; Automated Analysis
 
Description In this research, we propose a new concept for social media analysis called Social Sensor, which is an innovative design attempting to transform the concept of a physical sensor in the real world into the world of social media with three design features: manageability, modularity, and reusability. The system is a case-centered design that allows analysts to select the type of social media (such as Twitter), the target data sets, and appropriate social sensors for analysis. By adopting parameter templates, one can quickly apply the experience of other experts at the beginning of a new case or even create one’s own templates. We have also modularized the analysis tools into two social sensors: Language Sensor and Text Sensor.A user evaluation was conducted and the results showed that usefulness, modularity, reusability, and manageability of the system were all very positive. The results also show that this tool can greatly reduce the time needed to perform data analysis, solve the problems encountered in traditional analysis process, and obtained useful results. The experimental results reveal that the concept of social sensor and the proposed system design are useful for big data analysis of social media.To cite this document: Chun-Hsiao Wu and Tsai-Yen Li, "Social sensor: an analysis tool for social media", International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies, Vol.7, No.1, pp.77-94, 2016.Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.1411
 
Publisher Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research
 
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Date 2016-05-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Innovative Design;Software Design;Systems Development;Algorithm Development;Social Science Application;Quantitative Analysis;Qualitative Evaluate;
 
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Identifier http://academic-pub.org/ojs/index.php/ijecs/article/view/1411
 
Source International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies; Vol 7, No 1 (2016); 77-94
2073-9729
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://academic-pub.org/ojs/index.php/ijecs/article/view/1411/317
 
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