Visualization of dataflows: A casestudy of COVID-19 rumors

One of the most significant and rapidly developing works in the field of data analysis is information flow management. Within the analysis targeted and stochastic dissemination patterns are studied. The solving of such problems is relevant due to the global growth in the amount of information and its availability for a wide range of users. The paper presents a study of dissemination of information messages in open networks on the example of COVID-19. The study was conducted with the use of visual analytics. Informational messages from the largest world and Russian information services, social networks and instant messengers were used as sources of information. Due to the large amount of information on the topic, the authors proposed a pattern of the wave-like dissemination of information on the example of topic clusters on the connection of COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine and 5G. The developed methods can be scaled up to analyze information events of various topics. © 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors.

Visual analytics of twitter and social media dataflows: A casestudy of COVID-19 rumors

One of the most significant and rapidly developing fields of data analysis is information flow management. In the course of the analysis targeted and stochastic dissemination patterns are studied. The solving of such problems is daunting due to the global growth of the amount of information and its availability for a wide range of users. The paper presents a study of dissemination of information in open networks on the example of COVID-19. The study was conducted with the use of web scraping, methods of linguistic analysis and visual analytics. As sources of information variety of sources were used, such as the largest world and Russian information services, social networks and instant messengers. The paper considers statistical analysis of English media articles and posts form Twitter, dissemination of data flows between countries and information source. The developed methods can be scaled up to analyse information events of various topics. © 2021 National Research Nuclear University. All rights reserved.