GroupPulse - Monitoring and Tracking Group Dynamics in Online Social Media

The goal in this project is to develop GroupPulse, a system that enables decision-makers to gain insights from online communities. To do this, the system will monitor one or more social media streams, identify and track groups and sub-communities, and provide realtime analysis of group dynamics and topics. While current technologies can address some of the key capabilities needed for GroupPulse, they do not easily integrate nor do they individually provide the scalability needed for our vision. Specifically, in order to realize the GroupPulse vision, we need to integrate community detection algorithms, text mining methods to identify topics and sub-topics as they are mentioned in the social media streams, and models of group dynamics to monitor topics of interest in a group and how those shift over time.