Facebook recently released Lexicon which is like a Google Trends or Technorati for wall posts. Type in a word or a group of words, and you can see the buzz for those terms in a time series plot. Daniel sent me this excellent example. Type in party tonight, hangover and you’ll get the above graph. Notice the Saturday spikes for party tonight and the Sunday spikes for hangover? Here’s another one for finals:
It’s interesting to see what people are talking about, and being Facebook walls, there’s this realness to the charts (or maybe that’s just me).
Go ahead. Give Lexicon a try. What interesting queries can you find?
P.S. You have to be logged in to use it.
[Thanks, Daniel]
The effect of Christmas? http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php?q=drunk%2C+high
Thanks to Project Runway’s Christian Soriano — the Tranny Effect:
http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php?q=tranny
@Hadley: i think that’s the effect of new year’s parties
@Chris: haha, the tranny effect. i had no idea project runway was so influential.
http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php?q=go+blue
Note that this year’s Michigan/Ohio State game was on November 17th.
Also:
Democratic candidates:
http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php?q=Clinton%2C+Obama%2C+Kucinich%2C+John+Edwards%2C+Richardson
Republicans:
http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php?q=McCain%2C+Giuliani%2C+Huckabee%2C+Ron+Paul%2C+Romney
Current Candidates:
http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php?q=McCain%2C+Clinton%2C+Obama
sorry, last one–but the pattern here was so weird I couldn’t resist.
http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php?q=drunk%2C+high
@stacy: gotta love the weekend.
This is an awesome tool…if only I could find some pairs of words that are interesting to search for. Drunk and hangover was interesting!
Here’s a great one:
http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php?q=happy%2C+new%2C+year