Posts Tagged “twitter”

England Will Win the World Cup

So says a quantitative model from JP Morgan. Analysts Matthew Burgess and Marco Dion used a model designed to predict stock prices and fed it with past scores and Fifa rankings and came to this unauthordox conclusion.
“Having developed a rather successful Quant Model over the years, we intend to introduce it to our readers and [...]



Top Brands on Twitter

Revolution Magazine brought out a list of the top mentioned brands on Twitter recently. 
 
I mapped the companies on a scatterplot using Many Eyes (please be patient as this page can take time to load).  There were a few outliers like Starbucks so I took the log of both the mentions and followers to make [...]



American Idol StreamGraph

  
 
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new York Times’ award winning visualization of movie ticket sales.  This is a similar graph displaying words that are included in Tweets about American Idol leading up to yesterday’s finale.  The Neoformix folks put a nice little Twitter Streamgraph app online so you can make these graphs yourself about [...]