Data & Stuff // Neil Houston
Yeap, data and stuff
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May 5th, 2010VisualisationSpotted: 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.
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May 2nd, 2010Visualisation
Spotted: April 14th – May 2nd:
- NY Times: Driving Shifts Into Reverse – An interesting visual about driving usuage/mileage, the kicker being the X axis is not displaying time. <br />
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Works surprisingly well - 960 Grid System – The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
- TweetCatcha v 1.0 – TweetCatcha seeks to uncover the organic nature of news as it travels through Twitter over time, by examining the movement of NY Times articles through Twitter.
- Create cool applications! | dev.twitter.com – New application/dev area for twitter
- Follow Finder by Google – Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow.
- NY Times: Driving Shifts Into Reverse – An interesting visual about driving usuage/mileage, the kicker being the X axis is not displaying time. <br />