Data & Stuff // Neil Houston
Yeap, data and stuff
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July 22nd, 2010VisualisationSpotted: May 24th – July 22nd:
- http://flowingdata.com/2010/04/12/data-underload-17-famous-movie-quotes-p-2/ – Movie Quotes as Infographics
- Social media, BMW and the way forward | litmanlive.co.uk – Social media, BMW and the way forward
- Web design birmingham | Web site design west midlands | Branding | Interior design | Design agency birmingham | 383 Project » Such Tweet Sorrow Infographic – Birmingham agency 383 have produced an infographic of the information from the Twitter version of Romeo & Juliet, #SuchTweetSorrow
- IRE – Social-network analysis – The next step in data analysis<br />
IRE and NICAR members are beginning to explore the uses of social network analysis for visualizing and diagramming relationships between individuals and businesses and institutions. <br />
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This is a new approach for journalists, but other professions have utilized this approach for decades for a wide range of research projects such as analyzing: - iA » Cosmic 140—Final Beta – This time, it’s the 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting and what they first said. It took quite some time until we had it in the shape we envisioned.
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May 5th, 2010Visualisation
Spotted: May 3rd – May 5th:
- Google – General Elections 2010 – From Google, some good coverage of UK websites (Openly Local etc). Britain is going to the polls, and the internet is a great resource to help you make your decision. Quickly find out your MP and candidates below, with links to their blogs and Twitter pages. Then explore further, with fun and interesting election sites from around the web.
- Magazine Preview – The Data-Driven Life – NYTimes.com – An interesting look at people who track their life in great detail.
- About – trst.me – trst.me measures user reputation in a way far more robust than counting the number of followers. The basic idea is to look at how many people interact with you and give you their attention, weighted by how many people interact and pay attention to them
- Eddy – Stame Design – Eddy is a media aggregation platform built for the public display of up-to-the-minute activity on realtime services like Twitter. It was used by Stamen to curate the NBC Olympic coverage, pretty interesting.
- What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media? – WWW’10 – Research into Twitter, based off crawling the user network and looking at relationships. Touching on the thoughts of influence.