is it just me

wondering what’s up in my world…

07.09.2012
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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New book chapter is now available online

TweetJust a little more than 18 months after submission [sic!] our book chapter on mining and visualizing content from social networks has now been published by Springer. The book project Computational Social Networks obviously was a big success as they … Continue reading

18.05.2012
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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TEL-MOOC: introduction to the JTELSS12 workshop

TweetAt this year’s JTEL Summer School in Estoril (Portugal), I will chair a workshop on the TEL-MOOC (Monday from 14:00 – 15:30), a massive open online course focusing on TEL research. The TEL-MOOC will be organized by the European Association … Continue reading

twapperlyzerlytics

27.10.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Two new analysis tools for yourTwapperKeeper archives

TweetWe have been using TwapperKeeper in many of our Twitter-related analyses over the years and enjoyed using the Summarizr feature that Andy Powell built. After Twitter decided that TwapperKeeper had to shut down their API we switched to the great … Continue reading

time-person-of-the-year1_18

20.07.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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The power of my PLN

TweetAt the PLE conference in Southampton last week (I know my recap is still missing) I participated in the workshop “Tweetstorming PLNs: Using Twitter to brainstorm about Personal Learning Networks”. The workshop was organized by Eleni Boursinou and Nino Pataraia … Continue reading

10.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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A heatmap of Twitter chatter

TweetToday I stumbled upon the OpenHeatMap project. You can upload a Excel spreadsheet or connect to a spreadsheet in Google Docs and visualize your data in a heat map. It’s simple as that. While the navigation through the map feels … Continue reading

09.04.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Looking for visual communication examples (kind of)

TweetI need your help again and I already posted a question on Twitter: I am looking for examples of visual communication but not in the sense of art pedagogy, visual metaphors or visual messages. I am searching for examples for … Continue reading

11.03.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Another PLE_BCN Twitter visualization

TweetWe are still exploring ways to best visualize topical relations between Tweets. This time we used Artefact-Actor-Networks and Gephi to build a zoomable graph of hashtag-connected tweets. We took all the 6800+ tweets that have been tagged with #ple_bcn from … Continue reading