Extracting and visualizing insights from real-time conversations around public presentations

During public addresses and debates (like the State of the Union Address) people engage in social networks generating thousands of messages. After the event happened, however, it is difficult to gather past conversations from those platforms and link them to the speech to relive the moment. To address this we developed a visualization technique that leverages the real-time conversational aspect of the Twitter platform to enrich the text of a public presentation with the discussion on Twitter during that speech; creating an annotated visual narrative of an event that can be replayed as the user scans the text of the speech.