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Twitter Conversations Map |
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Author(s):
Walter Rafelsberger |
Institution:
MODUL University Vienna / Department of New Media Technology |
Year:
2008 |
URL:
http://flickr.com/photos/walterra/2631170956/in/photostream/ |
Project Description:
This visualization created by Walter Rafelsberger using Processing shows the conversations of about 1500 users from the microblogging service Twitter. The arcs basically link the locations of users who talk to each other. The geocoding was done filtering location info from the users profile pages and looking it up with Geonames.
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Wow. Statistics and arts are getting closer these days, or so it seems.
Posted by ritchie on Jul 4, 2008 at 9:09 PM (GMT)
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It would be kind of interesting to see this same information but with the earth as a globe, and the lines going *through* it. That would give more of a sense of information moving around the planet, rather than over an abstract surface like a flat map. Dunno. Just a thought.
Posted by Trev on Jul 15, 2008 at 2:29 PM (GMT)
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I second Trev -- curved lines skipping over the map are very popular, but it would be really cool to see straight lines running through a globe.
Posted by Cristos Lianides-Chin on Jul 28, 2008 at 3:44 PM (GMT)
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Some inspiration:
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/index.cfm?method=Globes
Posted by Manuel Lima on Jul 28, 2008 at 3:59 PM (GMT)
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I think this construct is perfect, visualizing twitter over a sphere will be visually more complex and maybe not easy to understand as the map. Playing with transparency and other gimmicks. Anyway impressive. Thank you.
Posted by David Sanchez on Feb 2, 2009 at 9:50 PM (GMT)
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I guess a sphere would definitely look way cooler, however, using a plain map makes you see the surface as a whole, not just part of it.
Posted by Walter on Sep 25, 2009 at 6:08 PM (GMT)
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