Towards intelligent mining of public social networks´ influence in society

This paper presents an overview of a proposed framework for the intelligent mining of the influence of public social networks in society. The framework consists of a data collection platform and a set of intelligent social-data processing modules. These modules identify relevant trending social topics and relevant actors within those topics, and trace back in time the evolution of those topics in the public social networks. The framework creates quantitative and qualitative indicators that can be used to analyze the role and the influence of the social networks and of their main actors in society.