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Some Recent AttentionAugust 25

Twitter StreamGraphs has triggered some attention for Neoformix over the last month. Some of the major sources were:

1. A tweet about StreamGraphs from Tim O'Reilly on August 5th to his 8,680 followers. Tim is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media - a publisher of excellent technical books.
2. An article written by Scott Gilbertson entitled StreamGraph Maps Twitter Word by Word for Webmonkey. A link to this showed up on the front page of Wired and drove some significant traffic.
3. A tweet about using StreamGraphs to follow references to the Olympics from Evan Williams. Ev is the Co-founder and CPO of Twitter and currently has 17,535 followers on the service.
4. An article by Tim Showers called Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents that highlighted several of my little too

Another Box Office GraphicAugust 1

Zach Beane has created another variation on a graphic to illustrate movie box office data. See Movie box office charts for the original but here are a few interesting bits:

 

In Zach's words:

Each page displays trends in the top 25 movies at the box office for each weekend in a year. The color is based on the movie's debut week. Because of that, long-running movies will gradually start to stand out from newer movies with different colors.

There is an interactive version as well.

Related posts: Movies Ebb and Flow

Twitter StreamGraphsJuly 15

I just posted a new application in my projects section called Twitter StreamGraphs. It is an interactive tool to let you create StreamGraphs from the latest tweets containing a given word or from a particular user. A few examples are shown below.

 

 

The application shows a StreamGraph for the latest 200 tweets which contain the search word. The default search word is 'interesting' but a new one can be typed into the text box at the top of the application. You can also enter a Twitter ID preceded by the '@' symbol to see the latest tweets from that user. A parameter to the URL can be used to specify the initial search word. For example, use http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php?q=coffee to see the latest tweets about coffee. This makes it possible to link to a StreamGraph for your own t

Canada DayJuly 1

Happy Canada Day ! I've created a simple flag graphic using a few words that come to my mind when I think of Canada.

TechCrunch Analysis Part IIJune 27

My last post explored the company and product names discussed on TechCrunch and how they varied over time. The number of posts written by the various authors and how it varied over time was also illustrated. An obvious follow-up analysis is to look at the interaction between author and company/product names. Do certain TechCrunch authors specialize in writing about particular companies or products ? Or do some authors avoid specific domains ?

I've done this analysis and presented the results below. For each of the top 6 authors and top 60 names the number of times each author used each name was determined. The first graph shows the breakdown for the top 10 names. The second has the same form and shows numbers 11-60 but I've broken it into a separate graph because it uses a different scale. This lets us see more details for these names. I have also colored the bars to show proportional use of the names. A deep blue color means that the name was used proportionally much more often for that author and a deep red shows that it was used proportionally much less often. Paler colors indicate a lesser degree of high(blue) or low(red) usage.

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