I made some visual updates to the View From Above. Florida twitter usage now looks like islands in the sea, which in terms of Twitter usage it very much is. I find it fascinating how the map made from tweets occasionally mirrors the landmass but very often it does not.
I visualized some of the twitter data I collected just before the election, coloring mentions of Obama blue. I particularly enjoy the cities pulsing awake and asleep. But you should take a look yourself, try the HD version as it is much cleaner.
Here are some visualizations of Obama Twitter activity spreading across the country during and after the election. The visuals track mentions of him and can loosely be thought of as tracking “buzz”. Twitter background activity is gold and Obama is blue. Done with ruby-processing.
Lately I’ve been visualizing data from the Twitter public timeline using ruby-processing. Here are some maps of the twittersphere, each one is made from several thousand randomly sampled tweets from a particular day….I hope you find them both beautiful and enlightening.
