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Recent Media Coverage

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been honored to have my work has covered in a number of awesome publications.

Viral Information Flows / MIT Technology Review

Mike Orcutt of MIT’s Technology Review published a fantastic post, Information’s Social Highways, available in this month’s magazine as well as on their website. Mike got in touch with [...]

Reaction to Brian Solis Starbucks Twitter Study

I was pointed to the following blog post by Brian Solis, The Interest graph on Twitter is Alive – studying Starbucks top followers. Brian’s post defines an “interest graph” as a subset of the social graph around a certain topic. He claims that while Social Graphs of follower/following relationships were interesting, the interest graph is [...]

#Sidibouzid Twitter Hashtag: an analysis of the people spreading the news

There have been numerous articles and discussions on the role Twitter played during the recent Tunisia uprising. An excellent Techcrunch post by Alexia Tsotsis analyzed Twitter traffic over time (using data provided by backtype. According to their report, Tunisia related Twitter traffic peaked at 28 tweets per second, at 21:27:56 Tunisian time, a couple hours [...]

Understanding Information Flows: the True Power of Social Media

With all the excitement about Tunisia and the numerous debates on whether this was/is another “Twitter Revolution”, it was the perfect time to dig into Clay Shirky’s recently published piece ‘The Political Power of Social Media’ in the Journal for Foreign Affairs. I actually like the journal and usually buy a copy, but sadly there’s [...]

Seeing your Invisible Audience

::Making Sense of the Ebbs and Flow of Social Data

Below are notes + slides of my presentation at the BRANDSconf. I’d like to acknowledge Hunter Whitney. Portions of this content were based on a discussion and an upcoming article he is writing on this topic (link coming shortly):

I’m extremely passionate about data analysis and design. [...]

Aerogel Installation at TEDActive

I was fortunate to be invited this year as one of the contributing artists at TEDActive. This is the simulcast event that happens in Palm Springs at the same time that the main TED event takes place in Long Beach. The organizers frame it not as “TED jr.” but rather a more intimate version of [...]

Seeing a Twitter #Hashtag Spread

#CheeringForTheYankeesIsLike is a hashtag created by @mattsly the morning of October 26th. He submitted the following snarky message – ‘Go Phillies. #CheeringForTheYankeesIsLike hoping investment bankers get really huge bonuses of at least 8 figures‘ – hoping to entertain his friends, and possibly get others to participate. Matt had 182 followers at the time, not sizeable [...]