the geography of tweets - bbc developer conference
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Presentation at the BBC Academy conference - BBC DevelopTRANSCRIPT
Hacking public-facing visualizations at Twitter
Nicolas Garcia Belmonte / @philogb
https://interactive.twitter.com/
thejit.org PhiloGL
The Geography of Tweets !
The Geography of Tweets
by @miguelrios
The Geography of Tweets
by @miguelrios
The Topography of Tweets
• Novel Visualization • Data Processing • Rendering
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Visualization Techniques
Typhoon Haiyan
Charles Joseph Minard - (1781-1870)
Emigration
Coal Exports
Data-ink ratio“Above all else show the data
MINGLE
Multilevel Agglomerative Edge Bundling - Gansner, E.R. ; Yifan Hu ; North, S. ; Scheidegger, C.
Visual Display
Visual Display
Visual Display
http://github.com/philogb/mingle
Data Processing Techniques
NFL Fans
by @kristw
Pixel Color maps to Hash
rgb(20, 50, 55)
“20,50,55”: { “COUNTY”: /*name*/ “STATE”: /*name*/ “POPULATION”: 30}
We keep an image file and a meta data file
Graphics Techniques
BRANDS
Day / Night
Fold / Unfold
Blending
render tweets render globeblend
+ post-process
Halos
Halos
HalosTissot indicatrix
Halos
Halos
Tweet Impressions
WebGL Insights http://webglinsights.blogspot.com/
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Platform !
Global / Real-Time / Conversational
@philogb
https://interactive.twitter.com/