Radio Noise  May 2011

With the adoption of geolocation technology within interactive media, a new understanding of social activity can be generated. 'Radio Noise' is a visualization of this digital activity via Twitter over the course of 24 hours. In this sketch, National Public Radio is used as the subject for gathering the tweets.

Each NPR affiliate [red dots] was searched in the Twitter database and then geographically plotted through time [blue dots] on top of a map of US cities [white dots]. The number of tweets from one location around the given time is extruded [vertical orange line] indicating the specific tweet density while the overall tweet average is calculated below [lower left, above the clock].

Generated with Processing.

See the actual applet -here-

Also see -Sounds and the Brain-