Four Ways of Looking at Twitter

The Harvard Business Review has posted an interview with data visualization scientist Jeff Clark, who is gathering data from Twitter and then visualizing it using different methods. To the right you can see a Venn Diagram of three search terms. The terms in this case are Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Apple obviously dominates in the diagram with nearly 50,000 tweets per day. Microsoft is not far behind, but Google trails badly. Jeff Clark has created three other graphs of Twitter traffic including a spectrum map, an arc map, and a StreamGraph. Visit the article to see more examples of visualizing Twitter.

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Paul Adams manages an award-winning team for a federal high performance computing facility where he has worked for 15 years. He loves getting his hands on the latest visualization and computer hardware, astronomy, aerospace engineering, working with the poor, and ringing cowbells.

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