Visualizing Cluster of Tweets in London during the Royal Wedding
So the little storm has arrived! I am now the proud (and tired) father of little Benjamin, and for this reason blocked at home with little or no time for doing anything but changing nappies and cooking super-proteic food for Val. But somehow I found some time amuse myself with a little piece of Processing and wrote a simple code to visualize tweets on a map of London during the Royal Wedding. Easy enough to foresee, tweets during the day are creating nice clusters around Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and the super posh hotel where the Middleton's used to stay.
Here is the result:
To display this data I reused the information stored during the first phase of my Flux of MEME project, fetched from twitter with the Streaming API implementation in its Java flavour twitter4j. Processing is reading the information in XML directly from the database, hence a little PHP backend is providing the XML descriptor for all the posts locations.
Flux of MEME – 1st year final report
So it is now time to present the results obtained during the first year of research and development on the Flux of Meme project, and I was glad to fly to Milan for the presentation at Telecom Italia last friday 30th. Thanks-a-mil to Laurent-Walter Goix and Carlo Alberto Licciardi at Telecom for the constant support, reviews and recommendations: it immensely helped to achieve this result. And thanks-two-mils to Giuseppe Serra and Marco Bertini (also with the help of Federico Frappi) at the Media Integration and Communication Center for the help provided in the definition and fine-tweaking of algorithms. Looking forward to starting Flux phase 2!
This is a quick keynote that highlights the main elements of this geo-clustering and topic extraction tool, using twitter as a main data source but willing to expand to proper context-based data heterogeneous sources.
Twitter geo-located clustering and topic analysis, now opensource!
A year has passed since the beginning of the trial of Flux of MEME, the project I have presented during the Working Capital tour, and it is now time to analyze what has been learned and show what has been developed to conclude this R&D phase and deliver results to Telecom Italia.
Flux of MEME after 6 months: about twitter geo-clustering and topic extraction
It has been quite a while since our first "java -jar fom.jar" and the complexity of the project has constantly grown from the beginning, its tiny team facing every day a new challenge and trying to solve it with the limited amount of available resources. Now it is time to deliver the first prototype, draw a line and define the milestones ahead, but we are reasonably confident that there is room for improvements, and our clustering and topic extraction tool can provide good results. Special thanks go to @fedefrappi who received an email bombarding over the past few months and never lost his temper, great job man!
Twitter data mining and clustering results
It has been a while since my last update on the Flux of MEME project, but my team was not idle: we have worked a lot both on algorithms and architecture, and now it is time to analyse the first results. Thanks to the research grant awarded by @workingcapital, a first prototype of data mining, topic extraction and clustering application was developed, using Twitter as its main data source.
where are you going, poor little memes?
I'd really appreciate if you could spare 2 minutes for research purposes. I'm working on a project and I'd like to capture a bit of randomness in London greater area, read further details below.
Flux of MEME wins a research grant at Working Capital Bologna
It was the last of a sequence: the project was briefed, submitted for an elevator pitch, then checked in a couple of meetings, refined, presented again, and at the end it won. The project will be funded by Telecom Italia @workingcapital and was presented during the last Working Capital event in Bologna, June 9th 2010.
Goal of this project is to create a semantic web application capable of predicting the future through the analysis and clustering of concepts.
ERC Advanced Grant 2010 presented
I was recently involved in the presentation of an ERC Advanced Grant. The list of currently open calls are published by the European Research Council official website, here.
The project aims at realizing a wide and exhaustive study on the Mycenaean culture diffusion within the Eastern Mediterranean basin in the Late II Millennium B.C. with the support of a proper cross-medial research, in order to build up a user friendly macro DataBase of the whole archaeological evidences coming from the wide area of interest.
Principal investigator of the proposed grant is Anna Margherita Jasink. Her research activity addressed a variety of topics in continuous evolution with time, with a distinct interdisciplinary approach. In fact her field research has been concerned with both philological and historical themes connected to the Ancient Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean/Near Eastern civilisations.
The following investigators are the other members of the team:
- Prof. Stefania Mazzoni, professor of Archaeology ad Arts History of Near-Eastern civilisations in the University of Florence. With her expertise in Levantine world she will be in charge of coordinating the aspects concerning the presence of Mycenaeans in Syro-Palestinian area and in Anatolia;
- Prof. Gloria Rosati, Prof. of Egyptology in the University of Florence. With her expertise in Egyptian world she will be in charge of coordinating the aspects concerning the presence of Mycenaeans in Egypt;
- Prof. Giampaolo Graziadio, Prof. of Aegean civilisations in the University of Pisa. With his expertise in Mycenaean and Cypriote civilisations he will be in charge of coordinating the aspects concerning from one side the presence of Mycenaeans in Cyprus and from the other the role of Cyprus as an intermediary between Mycenaeans and the near-eastern countries;
- Dr. Luca Bombardieri, postdoc researcher in the University of Florence. With his expertise in field archaeology in Cyprus and Syria he will be in charge of coordinating the problematic question of the indirect contacts between the Mycenaean world and far away countries like Mesopotamia and Jordan.
- Eng. Thomas Alisi, postdoc consultant for the University of Florence. With his expertise in the field of interactive media environments and semantic web he will be in charge of the design of the overall software architecture, the definition of interaction models, coordination of the development team and delivery of project demonstrators.
The time frame has a schedule for delivering the first results in August, fingers crossed.
- repubblica.it illeggibile per la devastante presenza di pubbilicita' invasiva. quanto poco capiscono di web. #dovetechiudere
- @alezante 2 days break over w.e. is far too long for entrepreneurship, still >60hrs productive work/week can be achieved for short periods.
- sad day for my home country showing peaks of violence with mafia bombs in front of a high school. :(
- nice & easy: tech IPOs compared on a chart http://t.co/sjG4P81R
- Princeton invention delivers 3D sound from ordinary laptop speakers http://t.co/dtVtnX96
- @liquene allora traducilo e mettilo su hackernews almeno fai un bel fiammone...
- @liquene visto che fai flooding devi avere motivi superstrong, si possono sapere, seriously?
- becoming a leaseholder and slave to banks for next 25 years the same day of the biggest bubbly useless IPO ever. kind of ironic
- I know eclipse you're a massive sleepy ox swallowing gigs of ram, but I definitely love your refactoring functions.
- @tonyvolpe bloody scary with their huge pale eyes... I'll think of them when watching I am legend tonight on itv.
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