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Four Ways of Looking at Twitter - Research - Harvard Business Review

Data visualization is cool. It's also becoming ever more useful, as the vibrant online community of data visualizers (programmers, designers, artists, and statisticians — sometimes all in one person) grows and the tools to execute their visions improve.

Jeff Clark is part of this community. He, like many data visualization enthusiasts, fell into it after being inspired by pioneer Martin Wattenberg's landmark treemap that visualized the stock market.

Clark's latest work shows much promise. He's built four engines that visualize that giant pile of data known as Twitter. All four basically search words used in tweets, then look for relationships to other words or to other Tweeters. They function in almost real time.

Four Ways of Looking at Twitter - Research - Harvard Business Review

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Those are some seriously brilliant Twitter visualizations. I'm trying to think of the best way to leverage them, and at the moment I think it would have to be competitive intelligence...