Visualizing Location and Mood in Twitter
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 by Last year I wrote about some work done by Sune Lehmann and colleagues at the Barabasi Labs which explored the relationship between location and affect signals in Twitter (here). Sune pointed me to a recent update which extends the work to a cartogram approach to visualizing moods and volume: Mood, Twitter and the new shape of America.
The work explores both visualization methods and the data itself. It also demands answers to some interesting questions, the least of which is the apparent difference between the coasts and the bits in the middle. I’d be interested in seeing an analysis of these distinctions,
Monday, July 12th, 2010 by 
Thursday, July 8th, 2010 by 
As you can see over on the right, I tweet. At last count I was following 53 other tweeters and a misguided 237 were following me. I enjoy it and I learn things I likely would not otherwise learn. But there are limits and sometimes the hype is more than I can bear. Today’s example comes from the May issue of 
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 by 
72% of Internet users are part of at least one social network, which translates to 940 million users worldwide. These are the results of a global study among 2,800 Internet users. Eastern Europe and Asia are the regions with the lowest use (4 out of 10), while South America has the highest usage in terms of percentage (95%). Globally, 
“It is becoming difficult for new social sites to recruit members. The majority of surfers are happy with their current situation and do not want to become members of a new platform. Furthermore, they do not intend to reduce their use of their current sites. There is therefore a certain degree of stability in this market,” explains 
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 by 
