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Twitter Visualization

Twitter Visualization. By Nathan Moeller and Robert Sass. Problem. There is not really a good way of visualizing the valuable information that Twitter trending data provides Twitter allows you to find photos only for individual trends. Sample Twitter Results for “Happy Holidays” Trend.

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Twitter Visualization

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  1. Twitter Visualization By Nathan Moeller and Robert Sass

  2. Problem • There is not really a good way of visualizing the valuable information that Twitter trending data provides • Twitter allows you to find photos only for individual trends

  3. Sample Twitter Results for “Happy Holidays” Trend

  4. 1 http://blog.globalwebindex.net/twitter-now-the-fastest-growing-social-platform-in-the-world/ 2http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/9945505/Twitter-in-numbers.html Motivation • Twitter trends serve as a good measure of what its users are thinking and talking about • Twitter is the fastest growing social network.1 • 288 million active users • 500 million tweets per day2

  5. Map of Trends in Written form from Trendsmap.com

  6. Motivation • We wanted to create a more visual representation of the data. • Better image sources

  7. Implementation • Broken up into two main parts, the data file (getBingImages.php) and the display file (index.html) • Gather trends data from Twitter apifor a given location identified by a specific WOIED • Gather the images using Bing image search (currently use one image per trend) • Align and display images on the web page

  8. Implementation • [[“Dexter Dizikit”, “http:Wts4.mm.bing.netVth?id=H.4727755177986235&pid=15.1”],[Yabanc\u0131 Dizi Dizikit”,”http:Wts4.mm.bing.netVth?id=H.4894524461551163&pid=15.5”],[“Gol de Lanus”,”http:VVts4.mm.bing.netVth?id=H.4974595530295271&pid=15.1”]]

  9. Results

  10. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~nmoeller/

  11. Possible Extensions • Adding more images and dynamically changing positions • Adding an option to choose different source image search engines • Further manipulation/cohesion of images • Automatically refreshing images/trends without refreshing the page

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