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*graphic design and animation
*graphic design and animation
*database management
*database management


Mentor: [mailto:jdonath@cyber.law.harvard.edu jdonath@cyber.law.harvard.edu]
Mentor: [mailto:jdonath@cyber.law.harvard.edu jdonath@cyber.law.harvard.edu]


General Questions: [mailto:berkmancenterharvard@gmail.com berkmancenterharvard@gmail.com]
General Questions: [mailto:berkmancenterharvard@gmail.com berkmancenterharvard@gmail.com]

Revision as of 11:17, 19 March 2012

The long-term goal of the project is to develop a series of visualizations of people based on their digital data. (See http://vivatropolis.com/judith/papers/DataPortraits.Siggraph.Leonardo.pdf )

This project will focus on portraying Twitter users. The goal of the project is to create a visualization that gives the viewer a more intuitive sense of the interests of a Twitter user and their role in the community.


The first stage of the project is data collection:

  • writing the code to download a given user's tweets
  • download the tweets of those they follow
  • summarize who follows their followers
    • how many followers they had
    • how many they were following


The second part of the project is visualization:

  • designing and coding an evocative, legible and visually appealing representation of this data
  • topic-modeling and other NLP analysis of the subject's postings
  • recommend using Processing, but open to other suggestions


Key skills:

  • linguistic analysis
  • graphic design and animation
  • database management


Mentor: jdonath@cyber.law.harvard.edu

General Questions: berkmancenterharvard@gmail.com