I'm working on a paper on topical communities, and as part of that I've come back to this dataset to explore the social network that emerges through @ mentions. To start with, I looked at the social network that emerges when we look at the people on the list. This network is pretty densely connected, with the ...
I used the Classifier4J Summarizer to summarize the tweets and pick out the 5 tweet summary of the period, and the 1 tweet summary of @ replies and non-directed tweets. Only letters and spaces were kept for the summary (thus each tweet was treated as one sentence), the summarizer transforms everything to lower case and removes ...
Continued on from Part 5, exploring what they are saying using the Phrase Net visualization from Many Eyes. Each image is a link to the applet where you can explore the text and interact with it. Change the linking word on the left - I've used space, but "and" or "is" in particular could be enlightening. I ...
Continued on from Part 4, exploring what they are saying using Word Trees on Many Eyes. Each image is a link to the applet where you can explore the text and interact with it. Change the word in the top left corner to change the root of the tree. Alex Howard Alfred Hermida Andrew Keen ...
In which we answer the question - what are they saying? I've split the tweets up into two types - at replies, and not at replies, and a third which contains all tweets. I've created wordles of each one, for each of the 20 people we were following. If you haven't - check out wordle.net. It's awesome. There's ...
Continued on from Part 2, I'm representing similar data in a different (less exciting) way. Before, we looked at how the activity on the twitter streams was spread out over the day and by different types of interaction. Here, I'm using charts to show the breakdown for the day, by user. I've also created charts for ...
After breaking down the overall types of tweets from people, next step was to create scatter plots of their activity. Unfortunately, Excel will only plot 250 data points - how unreasonable! Luckily I love breaking Excel and coding something that will do what I want it to do and look prettier, so voila. Color scheme: Is directed at ...
Now that my iPhone is unlocked (yay!) and has a data plan, I can play Foursquare. Which is exciting for me, but I know some people hate it and my boyfriend has been getting all angsty about giving up my privacy for nothing. The thing is though, I love tracking things. I track the applications I ...
For a while now, I've been tracking something I'm describing "day in one word" on Mycrocosm. Thing is, by the end of each day I'm judging myself harshly and finding myself inadequate so looking at the data it seems I'm pretty miserable - and yet I think I'm fairly happy. After a good sleep, I ...
Clay Shirky wrote about this in Here Comes Everybody; the arrival of the printing press and how it changed everything. To summarize: when the printing press was invented the Church flipped out because they realized that they would no longer be in control of the information (namely, the Bible) that people had available to them. ...
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