the geography of tweets - bbc developer conference

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/