Last year, I covered a number of the so-called “Twitter protests” in China (#cn220), Iran (#25bahman), and Algeria (#fev12). Since these protests began in January 2011, the Arab Spring has claimed many members of both ruling and revolting groups…
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21st Century Legal Informatics: Part 1, Introduction
Dan and I have written and spoken on legal informatics many times. Inevitably these conversations come to the same cut-and-paste list of informatics examples from legal search/retrieval and decision making. It’s struck me that these examples fall into two…
Deaths per TWh (terawatt-hour) by Energy Type
The chart says it all, with nuclear winning by two orders of magnitude (via ManyEyes).
Dataset: Wisconsin Union Protester Tweets #wiunion
I’ve been playing with Twitter data over the last week, archiving Algerian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Chinese tweets. I thought I’d bring the story a little closer to home this time by archiving tweets from Wisconsin Union protesters on the…
Dataset: Tweets from the Chinese Protests #cn220
Earlier this week, I posted a ~100k tweet dataset on the #25bahman protests in Iran. The corresponding figure of frequencies showed a strong presence on Twitter, with over 500 tweets per 5 minute period at peak. You can download the…
