The document summarizes a conference about how databases and spreadsheets track our activities and leave digital traces. It provides information on the conference discussions on Twitter, including word clouds of tweets, hourly tweet rates, and visualizations of connections between tweets. Links from the conference cover topics around personal data analysis, open data, and new forms of data visualization.
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A presentation about the traces left behind on twitter about the conference "Follow the Money"
1. Follow the Money
A conference about the
role that databases and spreadsheets
play in our lives:
everything we do leaves traces behind
http://followthemoney.nu/
14th January 2010, Amsterdam @ Debalie
2. And this presentation
Is about
The traces left behind on twitter,
the official back channel of the conference
7. The number of tweets by the hour and the Conference¡¯s Programme and Speakers
8. This StreamGraph shows the usage over time of the
words most highly associated with the
#ftmoney hashtag
http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php
9. The Social Collider reveals cross-connections between the conversations that went on twitter
Posts that didn't resonate with anyone just connect to the next item in the stream. The ones that did,
however, spin off and horizontally link to users or topics who relate to them, either directly or in terms of
their content.
http://socialcollider.net
10. Tweets as seen by TwitArcs
http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitArcs/TwitArcs.html
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recall every minute of a day.
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debt and its consequences situation like the credit crisis hidden rhythms of our lives
for the United States and its and quickly supply the from a striking new
citizens. essence of the situation to perspective.
those unfamiliar .
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over the course of a single published a file on its site July 2005 on top of the roof
day. containing search keywords of De Balie in Amsterdam a
submitted by over 650.000 camera, which every five
users, this is the story of user minutes takes a picture of
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analysing the captions. description. The service is not
intended to be used directly by
viewers.
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only circulates in the Bijlmer prompt people to rethink their
area of South East Amsterdam strategy
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interlocking directories of possibilities of playing God Illuminates The World the day
the top companies in the US are explored. Michael Jackson died, then you
in 2004 know that it was made with
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for open innovation and Documentation for BBC cultivate nature, humankind
attempts to encourage and Feeds, APIs and content. causes the rising of a next
support those who have This is the complete list of nature, which is wild and
provided most of the data sources for you to unpredictable as ever.
innovation on the internet remix/mashup with.
There is a short summary of the
conference by Juliana Brunello
@ the Institute of network cultures
Gapminder weblog
Gapminder is a modern
¡°museum¡± that helps
making the world
understandable, using the
Internet.
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