Spot visualizes tweet commonalities
Jan 16, 2012 12:33 am • Permalink 
Twitter is an organic online location, full of retweets, conversations, and link sharing. Jeff Clark tries to show these inner workings with his newest interactive, Spot. Enter a query in the field on the bottom left, and Spot retrieves the most recent 200 tweets. You then can choose among five views: group, words, timeline, users, and source.
Each tweet is represented by the tweeter's profile picture, and they rearrange themselves as you switch between views. The latter three views, timeline, users, and source, arrange tweets into bar charts. Fairly straightforward.
Spot gets interesting with the first two views though, groups and words. Tweets are arranged based on the words they use.
Above, for example, is the word view on the search "flowingdata." Tweets cluster around words like world and data. Below is the same search, but with the groups view. Users who tweeted similar text (usually retweets) are grouped together. What jumped out at me was the group on the bottom with a single user's face. That turned out to be a spammer.
Give it a try for yourself here.
[Neoformix]
Find out what percent you are in
Jan 15, 2012 05:29 am • Permalink 
Accompanying an article on the variations of the wealthiest one percent, The New York Times provides this interactive map to see what percent you're in. Simply enter your household income and see how you compare in metropolitan areas with over 50,000 households.
Nation-wide, a household income over $383,000 puts you in the top one percent. However, a lower household income of $179,000 puts you in the top one percent in Flint, Michigan. The same wage in San Diego, California puts you only in the top eight percent.
Also: what jobs the top one percent have.
Update: There was also a fine print version.
[New York Times]
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