TweetVis: a visual approach to explore Twitter conversations over time

Information visualization is a field of visual data analysis that focuses on working with abstract information. It also incorporates interactions that make it easier for users to assimilate and understand the information presented quickly. This work focuses on developing TweetVis, a visualization tool that follows the fundamentals of Twitter data analysis. In particular, TweetVis makes it possible to explore Twitter conversations over time, as these conversations exert significant influence in the social and political spheres, underlining the importance of their analysis and exploration. To access Twitter conversations, use is made of the official Twitter API. Once the data is collected, it goes through a processing process that turns it into a graph, where the nodes represent the tweets, and the links denote the interactions between them. TweetVis allows users to explore conversations generated from a tweet interactively over time. Finally, this tool’s effectiveness is tested in a real case, analyzing the tweet generated by a public figure.