My newest creation into crowd sourcing this week has launched, the Tweet-o-Meter! Tweet-o-Meter shows twitter traffic from different cities around the world and allows you to see which city tweets the most. We are mining the data for later analysis to and are currently in the process of mapping the data. It’s all very exciting.
This morning the UK was flooded with news that Scotland’s Airport, and soon after all UK airports, were closed due to an Volcanic ash blowing across the Atlantic from Iceland. The resulting cloud, which planes can’t fly through without clogging engines, has forced many flights to be grounded for the majority of the day. This morning I had the idea to look at the Meteosat images to see wither the cloud was picked up from Space.
Ben Blundell has built a set of real life Tweet-o-Meters, controlled by an Arduino and a Ruby Script, here at CASA bringing to life the data I’m collecting via Twitter (actually using the same data as the virtual dials). These real life dials copy the digital version of the Gauges in every way giving us a central office distraction throughout the day.
After the success of #uksnow maps, Ben Marsh’s and my own visualisation, I have created an interactive map showing iPhone 3G Signal Strength in the UK from crowd-sourced data on Twitter. The map shows the current signal strength of a user, including which Network Operator provide their service. My project page has more information about it the project including some limited analysis of the raw data.
Welcome to my new blog! This blog has been setup in the attempt to provide an insight into some of my current work, thoughts and general musing’s. Things in my life have been quite rushed lately, so to speak with relocating to start a new job in London.
The research I am currently working on is very exciting and ground-breaking so I would urge anyone viewing this blog (well both of you) to keep checking back to see how this site will develop over time.
Happy reading everyone! 