Large-scale social-media analytics on stratosphere

Christoph Boden, Marcel Karnstedt, Miriam Fernandez, Volker Markl
2013 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '13 Companion  
The importance of social-media platforms and online communities -in business as well as public context -is more and more acknowledged and appreciated by industry and researchers alike. Consequently, a wide range of analytics has been proposed to understand, steer, and exploit the mechanics and laws driving their functionality and creating the resulting benefits. However, analysts usually face significant problems in scaling existing and novel approaches to match the data volume and size of
more » ... n online communities. In this work, we propose and demonstrate the usage of the massively parallel data processing system Stratosphere, based on second order functions as an extended notion of the MapReduce paradigm, to provide a new level of scalability to such social-media analytics. Based on the popular example of role analysis, we present and illustrate how this massively parallel approach can be leveraged to scale out complex data-mining tasks, while providing a programming approach that eases the formulation of complete analytical workflows.
doi:10.1145/2487788.2487916 dblp:conf/www/BodenKFM13 fatcat:oom64pvgtrbobfb4hygyvi2i4u