While Tsipras and his Syriza coalition have been busy in Greek parliament, the Internet has been a-buzz with speculation that their platform will result in a Greek exit from the Euro currency. This prospect, affectionately dubbed “Grexit” by Citi…
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Grexit stage left: visualizing the online discussion around Greece’s possible Euro exit
Tagged with: data, gephi, informatics, networks, r, twitter, visualization
Posted in Company News, Consulting, Research
Posted in Company News, Consulting, Research
Visualizing the #nonato Twitter hashtag – time series and top users
The NATO summit is currently being held in Chicago, and, as is typical for NATO or G# summits, the streets and tweets are full of dissent. In the spirit of my past investigations of online dissent (#jan25, #25bahman, #12fev,…
Tagged with: data, informatics, python, r, twitter, visualization
Posted in Consulting, Programming, Technology
Posted in Consulting, Programming, Technology
Charting Twitter time series data with tweet and unique user counts
Let’s say you’ve used my Python script to automate the download of a hashtag or search phrase from Twitter (in a Unicode safe way, unlike within R). Now let’s say you want to visualize the number of tweets over time. Easy…
Visual Summary of #jan25 Twitter Activity
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…
A quick look at #march11 / #saudi tweets
Well, so much for that #march11 #Saudi day of rage. Whether it was really the "tempest in a teacup" that Prince Al-Waleed suggested on CNBC (video below, transcript here) or not, the oil complex and Saudi markets seem to have shrugged…
