PLE_BCN keyword visualization

By Wolfgang Reinhardt on March 11, 2011

We are still exploring ways to best visualize topical relations between Tweets. This time we used Gephi and the Seadragon plugin to build and visualize a zoomable graph of hashtag-connected tweets. We took all the 6800+ tweets that have been tagged with #ple_bcn from Twapperkeeper, looked for additional hashtags that were used and draw edges between the tweets. Each edge is labeled with the common hashtag between two tweets.  With this visualization, clusters of similarly tagged messages become visible. There are clusters for keynotes, special sessions, ukulele sessions, the conference location etc. Go and explore the graph yourself. Tell us what you think about this kind of visualization in the comments. What do you like, what do you miss?

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