I’ve been using Twitter for the guts of a hundred days now. In that time, I’ve added about 1 new connection per day and posted about 10 status updates a week. So I’m probably going to have to graduate from beginner to low intermediate status pretty soon, as far as Twitter is concerned. Before I [...]
So long recession (for a day at least): Streamgraphing Ireland's Twitter-news!
Another month, another visualization method! This time it’s Twitter StreamGraph, which tries to show a river of topics related to a keyword over time. It’s early days for this particular method, I think – having a range of options, such as number of tweets, or a particular time period, etc., would be very handy, but [...]
Wisdom of the crowds? Web2.0, hubdub & guessing Ireland’s unemployment
I had the rather pleasant task today of going through a range of Web 2.0 / social networking tools and establishing the potential in their application to primary research. Some key things that the new generation of web tools can give include: Using something like digg or scribd to find key themes and recent developments [...]
