Many social media sites allow users to upload text, images, and videos (collectively referred to as anchor post) for public consumption. These posts may attract hundreds of comments from many social users leading to social conversations (i.e., discussions). Tools that can facilitate user-friendly and effective understanding and analysis of large volumes of comments associated with anchor posts can be of great benefit to individuals and organizations.

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In this work, we present a novel end-to-end visualization system called KANDINSKY to support multi-faceted visualization of social discussions associated with an anchor post. In KANDINSKY, the social discussion landscape is visualized using a collection of colorful circles and concentric circles, which are inspired from the famous abstract arts called "Color Study. Squares with Concentric Circles" and "Several Circles" by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). Intuitively, a circle and a concentric circle represent a social comment and a collection of comments in a discussion thread, respectively.