Tag Archives: Sociology

A Week on Foursquare

By C.G. | Published: May 19, 2011

The WSJ has a really cool time-lapse visualization of Foursquare checkins for New York and San Francisco. You have to go to the full site for all the fantastic data it displays. It includes the number of checkins per hour, the heat map (like above), the top 80 categories by checkin, the number of venues [...]

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Read It And Weep, Guys

By C.G. | Published: May 4, 2011

The WSJ on men crying: The male reluctance to shed tears is relatively new, says Tom Lutz, a University of California, Riverside professor. He traces this to the late 19th century, when factory workers—mostly men—were discouraged from indulging in emotion lest it interfere with their productivity. Iconic historical and cultural depictions of men crying—in the [...]

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Cool Data Visualizations

By C.G. | Published: February 21, 2010

From Google Buzz, founder & CEO of Seesmic, Loic Le Meur, shared a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing the visualization of Twitter’s stream. Its a fascinating read just for the inferences one can get from the data. The article uses different trend analysis projects like Twitter Spectrum, TwitterVenn, and StreamGraphs to highlight comparisons between [...]

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