BIG DATA OPINION ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL SET

computer Engineering

Current analytical approaches in Computational Social Science can be characterized by four dominant paradigms: text analysis (information extraction and classification), social network analysis (graph theory), social complexity analysis (complex systems science),social simulations (cellular automata and agent-based modeling ). However, when it comes to organizational and societal units of analysis, there exists no approach to conceptualize, model, analyze, explain and predict social media interactions as individuals associations with ideas, values, identities, etc. To address this limitation, based on the sociology of associations and the mathematics of set theory, this paper presents a new approach to big data analytics called Social Set Analysis. Social Set Analysis consists of a generative framework for philosophies of computational social science, theory of social data, conceptual and formal models of social data, and an analytical framework for combining big social datasets with organizational and societal datasets. Three empirical studies of big social data are presented to illustrate and demonstrate Social Set Analysis in terms of fuzzy set-theoretical sentiment analysis, crisp set-theoretical interaction analysis and event-studies oriented set-theoretical visualizations. Implications for big data analytics, current limitations of the set-theoretical approach, and future directions are outlined.

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