Regular readers will know that we have something of a fetish for data visualisations here at The Next Web, andWimblewatchis certainly a timely example. With the Wimbledon finals fast approaching, this Web app, built using the Processing programming language, measures the Twitter buzz around players and topics related to this year’s tennis championship.
The interactive visualisation, built byBrandwatch, lets you choose two topics (be they players, newsworthy attendees like Prince William, or even weather conditions) and play them off against each other to see which one has received the most Twitter discussions over time.
Brandwatchexplainsthat “Each dot represents one or more instances of a tweet about a topic on a certain day which we gave a certain score. The bigger the dot, the more tweets we found of that topic on that day with the same score.” The visualisation is explained in more detail in the graphic below (click it for a larger view) or you can dive right in to have a playhere(you’ll need Java installed).
Story byMartin SFP Bryant
Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously(show all)Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletterPreSeed Nowand technology and media consultancyBig Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
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