We were trying to play around with a few different ways of looking at cancer. After reading a highlight in the Harvard Business Review on data visualization by Jeff Clark at Neoformix (http://neoformix.com/), we thought we give it a go.

First is a stream graph. We thought we check out to see how #cancer performs and its frequency found as a search term for the last 1,000 tweets.

Next was a Twitter Spectrum. As Berinato from HBR describes, it compares two search terms and shows which words are associated with each term and which words are most commonly used in tweets with both terms. Here we used #cancer and #breast.

Finally, we looked at the TwitterVenn. This Venn diagram looks at the frequency of use of each term and frequency of overlap of the terms in a single tweet. We compared the top killers of adolescent and young adults: #cancer, #heartdisease and #suicide.

3 Responses to “Cancer Seen Visually through Twitter”

1. Kaylea Notarthomas says:

   April 1, 2010 at 6:55 pm

   Wow! I’m both a cancer survivor and Twitter enthusiast (PR student), so this is fascinating info.

   I’m linking back to your blog on my blog; the post should go up later tonight or tomorrow. I’d really appreciate it if you’d check it out and recommend my blog to your followers! Thanks!!

   Kaylea
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3. Cary says:

   April 12, 2010 at 8:33 am

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