A fun little website called MappaTweet comes from the visual analytics startup “Visualytics“. Parsing the real-time feed of Twitter and using the new Geolocation features they’ve added, it generates heatmaps of twitter activity for an area. Written in Adobe Flex and using their new Pixel-Bender shaders to create the heatmap, it’s a fun little toy for watching activity in an area.
Randall Hand
Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.