TextPool

Visualizing Live Text Streams

With discussion taking place on hundreds of cable channels, newswires, blogs, chatrooms and email, keeping up with today's world is becoming more and more of a challenge. TextPool addresses this problem, producing a dynamic, interactive visual summary of the latest topics of discussion in live text streams.

Project members: Conrad Albrecht-Buehler (NU CS), David Ayman Shamma (NU CS), Ben Watson (NU CS) & Kris Hammond (NU CS).

Publications

C. Albrecht-Buehler, B.A. Watson & D.A. Shamma (2004). Visualizing live text streams using motion and temporal pooling (pdf). IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Special issue on Smart Depiction for Visual Communication. (Conditionally accepted pending minor revisions).

C. Albrecht-Buehler, D.A. Shamma & B.A. Watson (2004). TextPool: visualizing live text streams (pdf). IEEE Information Visualization Interactive Poster session.

C. Albrecht-Buehler, D.A. Shamma & B.A. Watson (2004). TextPool: visualizing live text streams (pdf). Technical report NWU-CS-04-44.

Videos & Imagery

	An example view A summary of six hours of content from several news feeds on April 5, 2004, focused on stories related to the terms �president� and �iraq�. Derived from 137 stories as represented by 1,662 terms. Note the discussion of improper trading, an Iraqi cleric, and fashion.
	A new term becomes salient The discourse changes and a new term becomes salient. TextPool then fits it into the current visualization. A gif animation.
	A brief demo Here a brief video demo, recorded in QuickTime.
	TextPool and motion This video illustrates TextPool in light of our motion guidelines. Also recorded in QuickTime.