Apps like these are why information retrieval, search, and social media continue to fascinate researchers, and users.

Jeff Clark, has created an effective search perspective for twitter, which he calls Twitter-Venn. The tool, uses Venn diagrams as the underlying visualization and:

..supports investigation into the relationship between how words are used within the messages of all the people using Twitter.

And, as Jeff humorously notes:

In the context of tweets that mention ‘Christmas’ the santa to jesus ratio is about 4:1 .

Before uncloaking to a wider audience, would be nicer to, at the minimum:

• improve display, and refresh performance
• enable easy screen-capture

I definitely see this turning into a very effective trend mining tool. Impressive. (via Matt)

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at 3:24 am