The 2010 World Cup: a Global Conversation. 2010 World Cup: a Twitter timeline [image created by @miguelrios] During the 2010 World Cup, the world watched together — and they shared their experiences in a real-time, global conversation on the Internet. To illustrate that point, here are statistics and infographics that illustrate the global nature of the games and how fans’ interest & enthusiasm built over the course of the tournament on Twitter. The World Cup final represented the largest period of sustained activity for an event in Twitter’s history. Throughout the match, Tweets-per-second (TPS) were much higher than average; during the game’s final 15 minutes, this jumped to more than 2,000 TPS.
(Spain’s winning goal in the final scored a 3,051 TPS.)During the final, people from 172 countries tweeted in 27 different languages.At the moment of the winning goal, people from 81 countries tweeted in 23 different languages. This moment is represented on this Wordle infographic. Lee Byron » Else » Stream Graph Paper. In February 2008, the New York Times published an unusual chart of box office revenues for 7500 movies over 21 years. The chart was based on a similar visualization, developed by the first author, that displayed trends in music listening. This paper describes the design decisions and algorithms behind these graphics, and discusses the reaction on the Web. We suggest that this type of complex layered graph is effective for displaying large data sets to a mass audience. We provide a mathematical analysis of how this layered graph relates to traditional stacked graphs and to techniques such as ThemeRiver, showing how each method is optimizing a different “energy function”.
Finally, we discuss techniques for coloring and ordering the layers of such graphs. Throughout the paper, we emphasize the interplay between considerations of aesthetics and legibility. “Stacked Graphs – Geometry & Aesthetics” by Lee Byron & Martin Wattenberg can be downloaded in PDF form. Web Seer. Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options - Graphic. The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook. About Facebook is a great service. I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60. However, Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user's personal information to just their friends and their "network" (college or school). Over the past couple of years, the default privacy settings for a Facebook user's personal information have become more and more permissive.
This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a brief timeline of Facebook's Terms of Service changes through April of 2010. Let me be clear about something: I like Facebook. Data The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. I welcome data corrections, so please leave a comment below if you have better numbers to share. Types of Personal Data Audiences Implementation About me. 50 great examples of infographics - FrancescoMugnai.com - Graphic Design Inspiration and Web Design Trends. Michæl.Paukner's Photostream. Data Visualizations: 5 Beautiful Social Media Videos. Data visualizations are a wonderful way to display the interactions between large groups of people within a network. Virtual places like Twitter, Facebook, or Flickr can be easier understood when you see a visual representation of their inner workings.
We've chosen five fresh videos that visualize various social media ecosystems. 1. SweetNTweet If all Twitter searches were this fun, I'd probably do little else than stare at them all day. This experimental Twitter search engine is made with Processing; it lets you choose keywords for a Twitter search, and results are displayed in the form of petals which turn into tweets when they reach the destination. 2. This project displays a visualization of digital photos publically shared on the web by people visiting Spain. 3. Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a service that harnesses the power of an on-demand human workforce. 4. 5. The video is available here. More Visualization Resources From Mashable: FlowingData | Data Visualization and Statistics.