McNutt, Andrew M.Kindlmann, Gordon LMadeiras Pereira, João and Raidou, Renata Georgia2019-06-022019-06-022019978-3-03868-088-8https://doi.org/10.2312/eurp.20191144https://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/eurp20191144Large threaded conversations, such as those found on YCombinator's HackerNews, are typically presented in a way that shows individual comments clearly, but can obscure larger trends or patterns within the conversational corpus. Previous research has addressed this problem through graphical-overviews and NLP-generated summaries. These efforts have generally assumed a particular (and modest) data size, which limits their utility for large or deeply-nested conversations, and often require non-trivial offline processing time, which makes them impractical for day-to-day usage. We describe here Forum Explorer, a Chrome extension that combines and expands upon prior art through a collection of techniques that enable this type of representation to handle wider ranges of data in real time. Materials for this project are available at https://osf.io/nrhqw/.Humancentered computingUser interface designVisualizationGraph drawings10.2312/eurp.2019114453-55