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by pixelpusher on Tuesday 23 February 2010
[Blog, Visuals, video]
A visualization of each individual word used in twitter status updates overnight from 6PM GMT on Feb 22 2010 until 10AM GMT on Feb 23. Movement is caused by the list of words growing, as the program sees more individual words. Words used more often are larger and brighter (they grow logarithmically). There were a few points where the feed was lost, and it recounted the same status update over and over (you can tell where because the same words grow larger) but I decided to post this version anyway, because I still think it is interesting in this state. I have collected more data, such as word ordering, and will work on another version. done in Processing – source code is here (you need to add your twitter username and password)
The video above is a bit fuzzy – here’s a better image:
A visualization of words used in twitter posts over a single night
For those of you who haven’t seen it, SketchPatch is a playground for Processing sketches, where you can create, edit, share, and copy others’ sketches. All sketches on the site are Creative Commons 3.0 attribution licensed, which means you can copy the code and use it as long as you give credit to the original author(s).
I will hold an introductory, 2 hour Processing workshop aimed at visual artists at Openlab 5, which will be at cafe oto on the 25th of April.
For the first half, I will introduce Processing, some essential resources and books for learning it and for programming in general, and show some examples. The second half will be an guided open workshop.
Cost: £10
Please email workshop@pixelism.info to reserve a space.
