A Big Data Approach to Analyzing and Visualizing Stakeholder Communication - United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2); Big Data Expo, 23 May 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. The new Web intelligence feature of UNEP Live [1] provides a visual analytics dashboard to explore global communication flows [2]. The dashboard allows users to track news and social media coverage across different languages, or to search for the latest online publications of environmental organizations. It complements the tracking of environmental indicators with an analysis of the public dialog about these indicators - addressing calls to better understand social perceptions, and emerging online trends that shape these perceptions. By investigating communication processes on local, regional and global levels, the UNEP Live Web Intelligence platform sheds light on the collective awareness of environmental risks, and provides real-time feedback for policy decisions and public outreach campaigns. Presented at the Big Data Expo of UNEA-2, the 2nd Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly [3], the platform is developed for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) [4] by the Department of New Media Technology of MODUL University Vienna [5] and powered by webLyzard technology [6]. [1] http://uneplive.unep.org [2] http://uneplive.unep.org/global/index#web_intelligence [3] http://web.unep.org/unea [4] http://www.unep.org [5] http://www.modul.ac.at/nmt [6] http://www.weblyzard.com

1. UNEP Live Web Intelligence | uneplive.unep.org
A Big Data Approach to Analyzing and Visualizing
Stakeholder Communication from Online Sources
Prof Arno Scharl
MODUL University Vienna
Department of New Media Technology
www.modul.ac.at/nmt
www.weblyzard.com

2. UNEP Live Web Intelligence | uneplive.unep.org
• Complements the tracking of environmental
indicators with an analysis of the public dialog
about these indicators
• Addresses calls to better understand social
perceptions, and emerging online trends that
shape these perceptions
• Tracks communication processes and measures
collective awareness of environmental risks to
provide real-time feedback for policy decisions
and public outreach campaigns

5. UNEA-2 Coverage – Trend Chart and Major Online Sources

6. UNEA-2 Coverage – Geographic Distribution of Search Results

7. Air Quality – Keyword Graph Reveals Social Perceptions

8. Air Quality – Word Tree Shows Keywords in Context

9. Cross-Lingual Analysis – Dashboard Supports all UN Languages

10. UNEP Live Web
Intelligence
uneplive.unep.org
Developed by the Department of New Media Technology of
MODUL University Vienna and powered by webLyzard technology
www.modul.ac.at/nmt · www.weblyzard.com