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“Sipping from the fire hose”– sampling Twitter streams
A quick link for today showing a visualisation of Twitter showing a more practical explanation of a nation’s (presumably referring to the UK in the picture below) mood. I think it is interesting and...
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Language communities – another use for Twitter
This visualisation by Eric Fischer is wonderful in its simplicity and a quick zoom around the (very big) original-sized version reveals some amazing information about the languages being spoken in...
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Full access to the Twitter API in Matlab via R
[Update: This page is no longer relevant. If you are here to interact with Twitter via the API using Matlab, then you want Twitty. The rest is here for posterity.] Having slowly degraded my ability to...
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The death of Wikipedia? Does it mean anything?
It is now old news that contributions in the form of new articles and edits have slowed dramatically since the end of 2006. The change was so dramatic that it could (should) not be interpreted as a...
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The Health Informatics Conference 2012, Sydney
So #hic12 is nearly here and I’ll be there in a rather unusual capacity. I won’t be giving a talk. I won’t even be standing in front of a poster. I’ll be there as the official twitterer, which means...
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Twitter users with anti-vaccine opinions are relatively easy to spot if we...
So…I have been systematically collecting tweets about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines since October 2013. We now have over two hundred thousand tweets that included keywords related to HPV...
View ArticleTwitter mood predicts the stock market
Twitter mood predicts the stock market The original article is here uploaded on the 14th of October. Back in June I was toying with the idea of doing twitter surveillance to predict health outcomes in...
View ArticleTweetQuake, from Sune Lehmann and colleagues
A sign of the future - tweets travelling faster than an earthquake so that you would read about it before you feel it. Read the original post here and then check out the amusing video made by twitter...
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