Visualizing The New Arab Mind

http://www.kovasboguta.com/1/post/2011/02/first-post.html

by programnature • 15 years ago

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siculars2• 15 years ago

Powerful. I'll put this in the yet-another-reason-why-twitter-is-important-column. Makes beautiful, informative visualizations like this possible.

tomkarlo• 15 years ago

It's the visibility of the relationships - all this could in theory be derived from looking at email / phone records, but of course those aren't available.

And then there's Facebook...

siculars2• 15 years ago

It's not the method. It's the data. The fact that anybody with the know how now has access to public data is what is great about it.

zeteo2• 15 years ago

Any info on the total number of English speakers in Egypt?

sp332• 15 years ago

It's a popular "foreign" language in schools, like French is in the USA. Basically no one speaks it on a day-to-day basis.

kloncks2• 15 years ago

Necessary correction. Don't compare it to a foreign language in the United States, even if it's Spanish.

Egypt's much closer to other countries and has a huge tourism sector. Knowing a "foreign" language is vital; virtually everyone knows how to carry a basic conversation in English.

neilk• 15 years ago

On that page, someone asked what the red-blue cluster is at the bottom. I checked out a few dozen accounts in Twitter and it seems this is a cluster of Arabic software industry people and entrepreneurs.

po• 15 years ago

Yeah I saw your comment there. I find it fascinating that the two groups using twitter that look "grafted on" are Journalists and Software entrepreneurs. Both groups are early adopters of twitter. I see those two grafted on bits as bridges to unseen nodes.

baltcode• 15 years ago

Can't reach the server anymore.

DannoHung• 15 years ago

I love me some Twitters and all, but isn't this somewhat self-selecting in the sense that technology leans younger?

mrleinad• 15 years ago

Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, 2nd GiG, and how people get self organized.

w1ntermute• 15 years ago

A SAC existed in original series as well, in the form of all the copycats of the Laughing Man, who never existed in the first place.

Visualizing The New Arab Mind

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