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#worldcup tweet viz1 from Mat Kelcey on Vimeo.here's a simple visualisation of the use of official country codes (eg #aus) in a week's worth of tweets from the search stream for #worldcup.rate is about 2hours of tweets per sec. orb size denotes relative frequency of that country code. edges denote that those two countries feature a lot in the same tweets. movement is based on gravitational like attraction along edges.the quiet period at about 0:17 is a twitter outage :)here's the original processing applet version with a bit more discussion...

since the world cup started i've spent more time looking at twitter data about the games than the actual games themselves. what a sad data nerd i am!anyways, here's the first few days analysis based the use of official country tags (eg #aus) in the search stream for #worldcup.tomorrow i might look in more detail at one of the games, wondering how many variants of 'goooooooal' i'll find :D...