Tag Clouds on Steriods: New Techniques for Visualising Social and Mass Media Big Data [video]
I love me a Wordle. If you're the same and you're interested in some ground-breaking techniques to visualise big data in real-time this video is worth a watch.
Deb Roy's research starts with an experiment to parse 90,000 hours of video to chart his infant son's discovery of language through to analysis of online comments, sentiment and social connections during President Obama's State of the Union address.
His techniques using different planes to represent mass media, social media and the links between make the connectors within the social graph light up. If you're pushed for time, the relevant digital media bit kicks off around 11:47.
It's definitely worth a watch, especially if you're using or building tools to visualise large complex sets of information. I'd love to see how this applies outside of the home to mobile Internet usage, commeting and interactions with social graph.
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6 August 2011 by Sam Michel
Sam Michel is the founder of Chinwag and blogs here for work, and more randomly at Toodlepip. He runs Chinwag Jobs, Digital Mission and tends to focus on murky place where technology, community and marketing collide. You'll find him on twitter @toodlepip.
Sam Michel is the founder of Chinwag and blogs here for work, and more randomly at Toodlepip. He runs Chinwag Jobs, Digital Mission and tends to focus on murky place where technology, community and marketing collide. You'll find him on twitter @toodlepip.
