Current technology for monitoring social media will track frequencies of matching documents for simple, unorganized, keyword lists containing names of groups, individuals, practices, brands, and places. This has left a gap between what society thinks is understood from monitoring and what is actually understood in the complex systems that make up societies....

Background The rapid dissemination of news is an important factor for the global population to stay up to date with current events, or to make well-informed decisions in dynamic sectors like the stock market. Journalists typically include large amounts of quantitative information using data visualization to help enhance accessibility and comprehension...