BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:ԭ BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20181104T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.317436.field_event_date.0@www.wright.edu DTSTAMP:20260219T215151Z CREATED:20180416T173151Z DESCRIPTION:Committee:  Drs. Soon Chung\, Advisor\, Nikolaos Bourbakis\, an d Vincent Schmidt (WPAFB)ABSTRACT:Although Twitter has been around for mor e than ten years\, crisis management agencies and first response personnel are not able to fully use the information this type of data provides duri ng a crisis or a natural disaster. This paper addresses the clustering and visualizing social media data by textual similarity\, rather than by only time and location\, as a tool for first responders. This paper presents a tool that automatically clusters geotagged text data based on their conte nt and displays the clusters and their locations on the map. It allows at- a-glance information to be displayed throughout the evolution of a crisis.   For accurate clustering\, we used the silhouette coefficient to determin e the number of clusters automatically.  To visualize the topics (i.e.\, f requent words) within each cluster\, we used the word cloud. This tool cou ld be easily used by first response and official management personnel to q uickly determine when a crisis is occurring\, where it is concentrated\, a nd what resources to best deploy to stabilize the situation. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T153000 LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T180909Z LOCATION:304 Russ Engineering SUMMARY:Masters Thesis Defense “Content-based Clustering and Visualization of Social Media Text Messages” By Sydney Barnard URL;TYPE=URI:/events/masters-thesis-defense-%E2%80%9C content-based-clustering-visualization-social-media-text-messages%E2%80%9D END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR