Meet Jer Thorp
Posted in things we liked on May 12th, 2009 by asjsJer’s blog blprnt landed in my inbox this morning via google alert. He’s put together a pretty cool visualization in Processing by mining Twitter for the phrase “Just Landed” and then parsing out the location the tweeter had just landed in, along with the home location listed in their twitter profile. There are some problems with the assumptions made in the data collection process but, whatever. If Jer wants the science to be perfect than he’ll figure that out on his own.
The results of all that mining and processing look like this:
Awesome. Find out more about his methodology and check out some animation here.
May 12th, 2009 11:25 am
very pretty for data
May 22nd, 2009 3:17 am
Hello
I really like your project. I’m new in programming visualization of social networks, but I have to do a project on it… So is it possible to do something like that but on facebook. maybe you could share some ideas, or some piece of code to examine. thak you wery much 
May 22nd, 2009 9:53 am
Hi Jelenia, we weren’t the authors of “Just Landed” it was done by Jer Thorp. You can see more of his work on his blog at:
http://blog.blprnt.com/
To see a good social network visualization check out:
http://twitnest.appspot.com/nest/index.html
Thanks for dropping by!
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