Time-Lapse Twitter Visualization Shows America’s Moods

Very interesting. The takeaway here is not to expect people to react well to you after lunch.

From Mashable:

A group of researchers from Northeastern and Harvard universities have gathered enough data from Twitter to give us all a snapshot of how U.S. residents feel throughout a typical day or week.

Not only did they analyze the sentiments we collectively expressed in 300 million tweets over three years against a scholarly word list, these researchers also mashed up that data with information from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Google Maps API and more. What they ended up with was a fascinating visualization showing the pulse of our nation, our very moods as they fluctuate over time.

Here's the study:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/twittermood/

Created a quick Flash demo for Android phones

Basically this is just a quick mod of some animation we did for another project that lets you make a little guy dance on the screen. We messed around with a few frame rates on it, and I've found that 8FPS seems to work best for vector animation at a full screen size. However, I'm experiencing some shearing on my Nexus One as it tries to blit all of the animation to the screen. If anyone happens upon this, I'd be interested in your feedback.

Here are the test files:

30 fps

http://www.neatoentertainment.com/A-R_dropbox/nexus/demoDanceBoy30fps/nexusDemo_boyDance.html


10 fps

http://www.neatoentertainment.com/A-R_dropbox/nexus/demoDanceBoy10fps/nexusDemo_boyDance.html


8 fps

http://www.neatoentertainment.com/A-R_dropbox/nexus/demoDanceBoy8fps/nexusDemo_boyDance.html


6 fps

http://www.neatoentertainment.com/A-R_dropbox/nexus/demoDanceBoy6fps/nexusDemo_boyDance.html


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