Occupy Hashtag Timeline Visualization

This project is basically a free/libre open source implementation of trendistic. We started with the following sketch of Tweet volume by city, displayed in parallel:

Timelines by City

From there, Pablo used inkscape and libreoffice to create the following static mock-up, using the real data from the #OccupyData dataset from r-shief.org

(image pulled from @numeroteca‘s post at https://twitter.com/#!/numeroteca/status/145583946778951680/photo/1)

https://twitter.com/numeroteca/status/145583946778951680/

You can follow our development process on the project’s etherpad below: http://brownbag.me:9001/p/occupyhashtagtimeline

Occupy Hashtag Timeline Visualization

Implementation of 

http://montera34.com/occupyresearch/2011/12/09/occupydata-brainstorm-images/20111209_120935/

Steps:

• merge CSV in one usable CSV or DB (by day, by hour, by minute)

Questions – POI

The hashtags are not all collected from the same moment, could lead to missinterpretations.

Smoother curvers for days that for hour-minute.

Mock up

https://twitter.com/#!/numeroteca/status/145583946778951680/photo/1

Grahic basics made with libre office.

Redesigned with inkscape.

Examples

Possible tools: 

Javascript biblios

http://thejit.org/static/v20/Jit/Examples/AreaChart/example1.html

http://code.google.com/p/flot/

Processing:

Example with tool by Ben Fry http://montera34.com/lab/deuda-madrid/

Inkscape

Generate a .svg file (interactive or not). Known plugins for this?

Unity 3D

Visualization examples:

Trendistic http://trendistic.indextank.com/occupywallstreet/occupy/ows/occupyoakland/occupyboston/_since-2011-09-16-20h-utc/_until-2011-12-10-20h-utc

The r-shief 3d visualization for hashtags, where is it?