Curious about how people use “geek” and “nerd” to describe themselves and if…
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The differences between a geek and a nerd
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Geography of tweets
Twitter mapped all the geotagged tweets since 2009. There’s billions of them, so…
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ScraperWiki
Easily scrape tweets and download them as a spreadsheet with ScraperWiki.
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Geography of hate against gays, races, and the disabled
In a follow-up to their map of racist tweets towards Barack Obama, the…
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Languages of New York, via Twitter
In a follow-up to their map on most used languages in London, James…
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Get a visual recap of your year on Twitter
As 2013 nears, let the recaps, reviews, and best ofs begin. Twitter put…
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Twitter vs. Facebook: What people share →
Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, took an in-depth look at what…
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Twitter Political Index measures feelings towards candidates
In partnership with social analytics service Topsy, Twitter launched a Political Index that…
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Soda versus pop on Twitter →
Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, explored the geographic differences in language…
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A graphical summary of Euro 2012 on Twitter
Nicolas Belmonte, a data visualization scientist at Twitter, visualized the change in tweet…
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When the world sleeps, based on Twitter activity
Twitter engineers Miguel Rios and Jimmy Lin explored tweet volumes in different cities…
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Tasty Tweets makes smoothies based on trending fruits
During a one-week visualization course at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, Kat…
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Text Processing with MapReduce →
From Twitter engineer Jimmy Lin; free download on github
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Your personal networks visualized as microbiological cells in Biologic
Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting…
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Map your Twitter friends
You’d think that this would’ve been done by now, but this simple mashup…
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Geographic connectedness via Twitter locations
Eric Fischer has mastered the art of making use of geotagged things from…
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Watching ‘wtf Wikipedia’ as SOPA/PIPA blackout begins
While SOPA and PIPA are no laughing matter (join the strike), the reaction…
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Spot visualizes tweet commonalities
Twitter is an organic online location, full of retweets, conversations, and link sharing.…
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Rise and fall of riot rumors on Twitter
During the riots in London this past summer, a lot of information spread…
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Language communities of Twitter
Eric Fischer maps language communities on Twitter using Chrome’s open-source language detector. Each…