Simon’s work on Source

Projects

1. Twitter Mapping: Foundations
2. How (and Why) We Made Twitter Reverb
3. How We Made the SOTU Twitter Visualization
4. The Guardian’s Sandy Incidents Map
5. Superstorm Sandy: Code and Interactives

Articles by Simon

1. 

   Twitter Mapping: Foundations

   Twitter’s Data Editor Highlights Challenges and Possibilities

   Posted on October 10, 2014

   Twitter’s data editor lays out the major challenges and opportunities that arise when you set out to map tweets.

2. 

   How (and Why) We Made Twitter Reverb

   Twitter and Periscopic talk about their process and goals

   Posted on August 13, 2014

   Twitter’s Simon Rogers introduces Reverb and walks through his team’s design and development work with Periscopic.

3. 

   How We Made the SOTU Twitter Visualization

   The Twitter #Interactive team breaks it down

   Posted on March 18, 2014

   People tweet what they think, when they think it—and, crucially, we wanted to provide a visualization for the State of the Union speech which reflected that. This wouldn’t be a (shudder) word cloud based on frequencies but a way to track the conversation on Twitter as it was directly influenced by the President’s speech.

4. 

   The Guardian’s Sandy Incidents Map

   How we made the verified events map

   Posted on November 2, 2012

   Simon Rogers on the rapid development of their verified Sandy events map and dataset.