A really useful tool to see who tweets about you. Quickly find relevant people to follow! Use Mentionmap to see Twitter conversations as a network and click any user to explore.
mention map tool by asterisq.com
I like it as its functional, they are in a concept map with elaborate media of
hyperlink attached to nodes to delve deeper, mine deeper into the relational tweeters. Not entirely about the visual appearance but more the activity of user and influence.
http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap/#user-visualthinkmap
There have been many twitter visualisations, some mentioned here:
http://www.chethstudios.net/2008/08/most-stunning-twitter-visualizations.html
Chris Harrison is well known to data visualiser but is worth a mention of visualising text.
http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/visualization.html
Published on 2009/11/30 12:32 am.
Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: Chris Harrison, concept map, Conversations, html, Hyperlink, Map Tool, Online Communities, Programming, Related Articles, Social Networking, Tweet, Tweeters, Twitter, Visual Appearance, Visualization, Windows, World History
Its ‘planets’ style with the 3D central gradient effect to the circles, and varying sizes create excellent salience as they grab your attention. The circular halo around ‘a band represents its popularity, the wider it is, the more popular or representative of a certain style of music it is’. The colour stands out against the soft grey background, ‘the colour of a very popular band, will influence the colour of the related bands’ (Worldwide, 2005, p. credits).
This varying size affects the information value very effectively, but as it is a Concept map, clicking one of the planets readjusts the circular halo (planets) to a series of bands that are associated to them, such as with The Ravonettes. The subtle, seamless, beautiful real time repositioning of the constellation to the associated bands with them is excellent. The interconnection of these information sources is immense and is not half, not nearly as visually stimulating viewed via plain words/sentences. Music Plasma has an interactive highly creative visual composition, visual map. It has mapped the knowledge of a map designers mind and allowed the seamless fluid motion to map user’s interaction.
Published on 2008/03/24 11:48 pm.
Filed under: concept map, constellations, music Tags: Circles, concept map, Constellation, Fluid Motion, Gradient Effect, Grey Background, Information Sources, Interaction Worldwide, Interconnection, Planets, Plasma, Popular Band, Ravonettes, Related Articles, Repositioning, Ring Galaxy, Salience, Sentences, Style Of Music, Visual Composition
