Brian McInnis|Lu Sun|Jung-Won Shin|Steven P. Dow
Rare, but Valuable: Understanding Data-centered Talk in News Website Comment Sections
University of California, San Diego|University of California, San Diego|Cornell University|University of California, San Diego
news websites facilitate global discussions civic issues financial cost burden moderating forums forced many disable commenting systems paper consider role data visualizations play online discussion around civic issue analysis people talk climate change data comment threads three news websites ie breitbart news guardian new york times find 6525 comments 24 reference data visualizations articles rare paper presents illustrative examples people refer datatheir collection analysis visual representationto engage articles narrative using text classification techniques identify several features related content comments contain datacentered talk article cosine similarity hyperlinks comparison terms finally discuss potential ways newsrooms might apply analysis promote data literacy data science foster community around shared experiences