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A Methodology for Capturing Joint Visual Attention Using Mobile Eye-Trackers

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An effective assessment of cluster tendency through sampling based multi-viewpoints visual method.

K Rajendra Prasad¹, B Eswara Reddy², Moulana Mohammed³

¹Department of CSE, Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering and Technology, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh India.

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

|January 11, 2021

Summary

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Analyzing health discussions on Twitter is complex due to data sparsity. This study proposes sampling-based visual methods to efficiently determine the number of topic clusters in health-related tweets, improving upon existing techniques.

Keywords:

Cluster tendency MVS-VAT Sampling Tweets data clustering VAT cVAT

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Area of Science:

Computational Social Science
Data Mining
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Social networks like Twitter are vital for sharing health information.
Analyzing health-related tweets presents challenges due to data sparsity and determining optimal cluster numbers.
Existing visual access tendency (VAT) methods, including MVS-VAT, struggle with computational time for large tweet datasets.

Purpose of the Study:

To address the computational challenges in clustering health-related tweets from social media.
To propose and evaluate sampling-based visual methods for determining cluster tendency in tweet data.
To enhance the efficiency of topic modeling for health information on Twitter.

Main Methods:

Utilized topic models to derive topic clusters from health-related tweets.
Investigated visual access tendency (VAT) methods, including cosine-based VAT (cVAT) and multi viewpoints-based cosine similarity VAT (MVS-VAT).
Developed and applied sampling-based visual methods to improve computational efficiency for cluster tendency analysis.

Main Results:

The proposed sampling-based visual methods effectively overcome the computational limitations of existing VAT techniques.
Demonstrated improved efficiency in determining the number of clusters for tweet data compared to traditional methods.
Successfully extracted and analyzed health tweets using standard health keywords.

Conclusions:

Sampling-based visual methods offer a computationally tractable solution for analyzing health-related tweet clusters.
These methods enhance the ability to understand health knowledge sharing on social media platforms like Twitter.
The study provides a more efficient approach to topic modeling for health informatics research.