Stamen Design, creators of the fun MTV Music Awards twitter tracker a while back, has a new interactive twitter tracker online at NBC’s website where you can follow the firehose of twitter traffic related to the Olympics. From their blog post:
I’ve been feeling for some time now that the data visualization space is about to go completely bananas, where “bananas” means “taken for granted” in the sense that no major cultural event will feel complete without a corresponding live data visualization. The breadth and depth of the conversation happening on twitter around the Olympics is just blowing my mind, as tragedy and farce and pop culture and stardom roll together—but remain distinct and understandable—in a display that’s changing minute-by minute as I look at it.
