3D Based Visualization Tool to Analyze the Influential Topics via Hashtags on Instagram Platform

Authors

  • Guo Xinyi School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information & Communication Department, Xiamen University Malaysia
  • Liu Cuiting School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information & Communication Department, Xiamen University Malaysia
  • Wang Ruisi School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information & Communication Department, Xiamen University Malaysia
  • Raja Majid Mehmood School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information & Communication Department, Xiamen University Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21625/archive.v4i2.753

Keywords:

Information visualization, Instagram, interactive 3D visualization, social media, topic analysis

Abstract

This paper intends to develop an interactive, comprehensive information visualization platform of Instagram hashtag analysis. Instagram hashtags has developed themselves into all different kinds of group or communities for users to share hobbies and find similar friends. In order to analyze topic influence and user interest trend from Instagram, which contains billions of end-users and has worldwide influence, hashtag analysis is necessary to gather such information and compare the proportion of people involving in each tags and rank them to visualize. The visualization is developed in 3D space and consists of time-varying data flow of tags, together with tag comparison analysis, as well as event researches. In the rest of the paper, we mainly discuss the design idea and the development process of the system. An example of the system design work will be shown in the discussion, which involves 4 popular hashtags discussed on Instagram and are shown on the system, displayed as an 3D histogram, together with another comparison histogram to compare different tags, as well as an event view in the back.

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Published

2020-12-30

How to Cite

Xinyi, G., Cuiting, L., Ruisi, W., & Mehmood, R. M. (2020). 3D Based Visualization Tool to Analyze the Influential Topics via Hashtags on Instagram Platform. The Academic Research Community Publication, 4(2), 26–39. https://doi.org/10.21625/archive.v4i2.753