{"id":2353,"date":"2011-04-15T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T16:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2011-04-15T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T16:33:50","slug":"ttw2011-twitter-visualization-by-vicky-lai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2011\/04\/15\/ttw2011-twitter-visualization-by-vicky-lai\/","title":{"rendered":"TtW2011 Twitter Visualization by Vicky Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/04\/vicky_installation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2354\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/04\/vicky_installation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/04\/vicky_installation.jpg 315w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/04\/vicky_installation-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a>Theorizing the Web 2011 featured several projected installations.\u00a0 In this post, I want to highlight the Twitter visualize produced by Vicky Lai, an undergraduate at the University of Maryland. Vicky explained her project to me, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tweet cloud generator was inspired by research with the Social Media Micro-Modeling group at UMD and started as a final project for a Digital Cultures and Creativity course. Originally designed to visualize popular words in a Twitter user&#8217;s social network (of followers\/following to a certain depth), the project was modified to collect tweets containing &#8220;#ttw2011&#8221; and visualize the most frequent words. Word clouds are generated by IBM&#8217;s word cloud generator, the program used on the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/wordle.net\" target=\"_blank\">Wordle<\/a> site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The visualization automatically regenerated a couple times each minute, which enabled attendees to watch different words trend over time as the conversation in the conference itself shifted.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2361\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/04\/vicky-mug-shot-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2361\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2011\/04\/vicky-mug-shot-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicky Lai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Vicky Lai is a freshman computer science and economics major at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is part of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/dcc.umd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Cultures and Creativity<\/a> Honors program. Her interests include web and graphics design, social media research, and mobile development, along with occasional tweeting at @vicky1a1.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theorizing the Web 2011 featured several projected installations.\u00a0 In this post, I want to highlight the Twitter visualize produced by Vicky Lai, an undergraduate at the University of Maryland. Vicky explained her project to me, saying: The tweet cloud generator was inspired by research with the Social Media Micro-Modeling group at UMD and started as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[323,10598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-theorizing-the-web-2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}