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Posted on Tuesday 26 July 2011 by Steven Gray

London 2012 is only 1 year away! This is an exciting time for London and the UK in general. The new stadiums are nearly complete and most of the tickets for the events have already been sold. Hopefully if you applied for a ticket you got one! Behind the scenes here at BigDataToolKit and at […]

Crowd Sourcing, data mining, Featured, live, twitter, visualisations, web

Harvesting the Crowd: Experiments with Twitter

Posted on Thursday 16 June 2011 by Steven Gray

Harvesting the crowd is such a large and complex process but we can learn some interesting events happening just from looking at Geo-located Tweets. This seminar concentrates on what we sense we can make from the collective tweets of a city. Slides from seminar given to Oxford DTC e-Research Center, Oxford University, Jun 2011

Conferences, Crowd Sourcing, data mining, Presentations, visualisations

London Twitter Map

Posted on Thursday 19 May 2011 by Steven Gray

We have been working hard here at CASA lately, building tools to collect, analyse and visualise different data sets from all over the web. One piece of software that has proven quite popular over the past few months is our internal Twitter Collector. The collector mines Twitter for tweets inside a geographical radius either with […]

Crowd Sourcing, data mining, Featured, Publications, twitter, visualisations, web

Physical Tweet-o-Meters

Posted on Friday 8 April 2011 by Steven Gray

The Tweet-o-Meters are spreading! In association with JISC and the British Library’s Growing Knowledge exhibition we have installed nine custom built Tweet-o-Meters that update every 5 seconds. It is a great honor to see something that you built in a few nights get taken up by the biggest library in the UK. Ben and I […]

Crowd Sourcing, data mining, Featured, live, Toolkit, visualisations, web

Meet Tweet-o-Meter

Posted on Wednesday 9 March 2011 by Steven Gray

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. […]

Crowd Sourcing, data mining, Featured, live, visualisations, web apps

#1yeartogo visualisation

Harvesting the Crowd: Experiments with Twitter

London Twitter Map

Physical Tweet-o-Meters

Meet Tweet-o-Meter

Broadband Speed Mapped for BBC Look East Research