@RyanneTKD posted this one from Team Utrecht:

The dataset with #ows hashtag contains approximately 5.3 million tweets contributed by 650K users between October 2011 and December 2011. The following graph shows the number of new users who posted a tweet on a given day (i.e., the users who hadn’t posted before that day):

The graph of the cumulative number of new users (i.e., number of unique users who had posted up until the given day) is below.

The final dataset and charts are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ash6mAvb0VyZdER3RDFaY0JFNlVWMnlqQXZGSExaRVE

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

The code: https://github.com/yourcelf/occupydatatweets/
Update: Dec 30, 2011 now with all the tweets http://alltheurls.tirl.org/
Update: Dec 12, 2011 you can check the first online mock up with the #occupyboston tweets http://occupybostonlinks.tirl.org

At the Media Lab, after brainstorming various possible projects for the #OccupyData hackathon, we decided to focus on visualizing links sent around via tweets. The following video describes this idea further:

And here’s a picture of the concept from the whiteboard:

twitter links color map

We finished the second night with a working implementation! Screenshot here:

Explained:

Source: http://www.ustream.tv/embed/9919272

And here’s the etherpad where we’re documenting the solution:

Video source http://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/19034432

One interesting aspect of the Occupy movement has been the widespread use of live streaming to document the camps, actions, and mobilizations in real time using computers, webcams, and cameraphones. On October 24th, I ran across the Occupy Streams site that provides a list of links to all of the livestreams run by Occupiers. I forwarded a link to the site to the general email list used by researchers at the Center for Civic Media:

>> On 10/24/2011 10:36 PM, Sasha Costanza-Chock wrote:
>> Someone make a map, with thumbnails, already 🙂
>> http://occupystreams.org/>>
>> schock

By the next morning, I found this reply in my inbox:

>> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Charlie DeTar wrote:
> ok.
> http://web.media.mit.edu/~cfd/occupystreamsmap/
> http://github.com/yourcelf/occupystreamsmap/
>> -charllie

Later, Charlie DeTar wrote a blog post describing the map that he created. Today, during the #OccupyData hackathon, CDT gave us a more detailed overview of the process he used to code the map. The video at the beginning of this post is a full recording of that overview, shot by Pablo Rey Mazon. Check it out!

Key Links

• Map: http://web.media.mit.edu/~cfd/occupystreamsmap/
• Post: http://civic.mit.edu/blog/cfd/occupy-streams-map
• Code: http://github.com/yourcelf/occupystreamsmap
• More info+ How to guide: http://brownbag.me:9001/p/occupystreamsmap