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Title:
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Automated construction and analysis of political networks via open government and media sources
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Author:
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García-Olano, Diego; Arias Vicente, Marta; Larriba Pey, Josep
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Ciències de la Computació; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LARCA - Laboratori d'Algorísmia Relacional, Complexitat i Aprenentatge; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. DAMA-UPC - Data Management Group |
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Abstract:
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We present a tool to generate real world political networks from user provided lists of politicians and news sites. Additional output includes visualizations, interactive tools and maps that allow a user to better understand the politicians and their surrounding environments as portrayed by the media. As a case study, we construct a comprehensive list of current Texas politicians, select news sites that convey a spectrum of political viewpoints covering Texas politics, and examine the results. We propose a ”Combined” co-occurrence distance metric to better reflect the relationship between two entities. A topic modeling technique is also proposed as a novel, automated way of labeling communities that exist within a politician’s ”extended” network. |
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Sistemes d'informació
-Data mining
-Political science
-Mineria de dades
-Network science
-Text mining
-Open data
-Ciències polítiques |
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Article - Submitted version
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