Comments on: Texting volume during World Cup matches http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/29/texting-volume-during-world-cup-matches/ Strength in Numbers Thu, 24 May 2012 15:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: SUPERMETRICITY – writing about strategic design in New York » Turn up the Volume http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/29/texting-volume-during-world-cup-matches/#comment-46885 SUPERMETRICITY – writing about strategic design in New York » Turn up the Volume Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:08:11 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=9732#comment-46885 [...] Flowing Data posted this visualization of text message volume during the World Cup match England vs. USA. It shows a highly captive audience, brought together by a real-time event. An audience that not only consumes information (in this case entertainment) but is driven by the age old human desire to take part and chime in. Subscribe to comments Comment | Trackback | Post Tags: [...] [...] Flowing Data posted this visualization of text message volume during the World Cup match England vs. USA. It shows a highly captive audience, brought together by a real-time event. An audience that not only consumes information (in this case entertainment) but is driven by the age old human desire to take part and chime in. Subscribe to comments Comment | Trackback | Post Tags: [...]

]]> By: RadarLake » Hypercarnivores, texting, the moon and Douglas Adams http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/29/texting-volume-during-world-cup-matches/#comment-46827 RadarLake » Hypercarnivores, texting, the moon and Douglas Adams Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:03:07 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=9732#comment-46827 [...] Texting volume during World Cup matches (Flowing Data)–”O2, a UK mobile service provider, shows us texting volume during the World Cup and highlights the points of interest. England scores a goal and there’s a flood of text messages. Goooal.” Flowing Data also has a cool graphic of water consumption in Edmonton during the Olympic hockey gold medal between Canada and the US. [...] [...] Texting volume during World Cup matches (Flowing Data)–”O2, a UK mobile service provider, shows us texting volume during the World Cup and highlights the points of interest. England scores a goal and there’s a flood of text messages. Goooal.” Flowing Data also has a cool graphic of water consumption in Edmonton during the Olympic hockey gold medal between Canada and the US. [...]

]]> By: Nathan Yau http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/29/texting-volume-during-world-cup-matches/#comment-46705 Nathan Yau Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:01:25 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=9732#comment-46705 You comment. They listen. You comment. They listen.

]]> By: Texting volume during World Cup matches | SportsEnvoy http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/29/texting-volume-during-world-cup-matches/#comment-46702 Texting volume during World Cup matches | SportsEnvoy Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:19:17 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=9732#comment-46702 [...] Texting volume during World Cup matches Tags: data, every-goal, facebook, friends, really-looking, the-data, their-facebook, [...] [...] Texting volume during World Cup matches Tags: data, every-goal, facebook, friends, really-looking, the-data, their-facebook, [...]

]]> By: Sidney Blank http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/29/texting-volume-during-world-cup-matches/#comment-46694 Sidney Blank Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:27:06 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=9732#comment-46694 Visualizing real time data is so interesting. We just launched an app that alerts you of every goal in the WorldCup. You can then taunt your friends by sending a message to their facebook wall. We're really looking forward to wading through the data once we've got some uptake to see how the responses vary depending on who scored etc. Visualizing real time data is so interesting. We just launched an app that alerts you of every goal in the WorldCup. You can then taunt your friends by sending a message to their facebook wall. We’re really looking forward to wading through the data once we’ve got some uptake to see how the responses vary depending on who scored etc.

]]> By: SUPERMETRICITY – writing about strategic design in New York » Voice Pushtone Mobile App for World Cup http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/29/texting-volume-during-world-cup-matches/#comment-46693 SUPERMETRICITY – writing about strategic design in New York » Voice Pushtone Mobile App for World Cup Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:15:10 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=9732#comment-46693 [...] details such as a goal. The volume of TXT traffic during the Cup games has been written about on Flowing Data. We’re looking forward to parsing our own data for trends in a few weeks. On that note here [...] [...] details such as a goal. The volume of TXT traffic during the Cup games has been written about on Flowing Data. We’re looking forward to parsing our own data for trends in a few weeks. On that note here [...]

]]> By: Andy Kirk http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/29/texting-volume-during-world-cup-matches/#comment-46692 Andy Kirk Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:52:15 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=9732#comment-46692 I find the bars quite unhelpful, colour coding alone would be easier to sea the peaks and troughs, but a line graph would be the overall clearest approach. Incidentally, who the hell is Robson supposed to be? Is that Rob Green's Sunday name? I find the bars quite unhelpful, colour coding alone would be easier to sea the peaks and troughs, but a line graph would be the overall clearest approach.

Incidentally, who the hell is Robson supposed to be? Is that Rob Green’s Sunday name?

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