#interactives at Twitter

Nicolas Garcia BelmonteVisual Insights

@philogb

#interactive

Visual Insights Team

data visualization @ Twitter

public facing data visualization @ Twitter

#interactivecontext informationinteractivity

tell a better story new perspective for dataincrease engagement

http://euro2012.twitter.com



A summary for the action on Twitter during the European football tournament.

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#Euro2012

A summary for the action on Twitter during the European football tournament.
























































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http://twitter.github.io/interactive/tpms/

http://twitter.github.io/interactive/tpms/

http://twitter.github.io/interactive/emmys2013/

http://twitter.github.io/interactive/emmys2013/

#Laika

Motivation

• Real-Time geolocated activity

• Overview, zoom and filter

• Engaging, public facing

• Browser based

• Big dataset: > 1.6M tweets

Features

Day / Night

Fold / Unfold

Blending

render tweets render globeblend

+ post-process

HalosTissot indicatrix

Halos

...or just use the spherical (great arc) distance.

#interactive@philogb

http://philogb.github.io



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