About

Since October 4, 2009 the #sla2010 re-tweeter based on the re-tweeters used at sla2008 and sla2009 has been busily sending around tweets as people prepare for conference.

With a bit of help, I have designed this dashboard for the re-tweeter as a "one-stop shop" if you're interested in getting a bird's eye view of the re-tweeter's data stream.

This dashboard consists of two main pages: home and analytics.

There is also an archive of analytics for #SLA2008 and #SLA2009.

Home

Main page from #sla2010

The home page has two elements:

  1. A continuously updated feed of the latest Tweets in the re-tweeter data stream.
  2. A Live Cloud of words that are most popular in the re-tweeter's data stream at that moment. The more popular the word, the larger the font. Each word in the cloud is linked to a Twitter search for that word in the stream - very handy if you want to see why people are tweeting about that particular word. Stop words have been stripped from the cloud to keep it as clean as possible.

Analytics

Analytics page from #sla2010

The analytics page has seven charts showing:

  1. Who is tweeting the most (Top Tweeps)
  2. Who is receiving the most @replies
  3. Who is sending the most @replies
  4. What other hashtags are popular
  5. What types of tweets are being sent
  6. What links being sent around are most popular

There is also a handy set of links across the top of all pages to:

The dashboard is based on live data from the re-tweeter's database, so check back often to see how the data stream is changing over time. I hope you find this dashboard useful, interesting and thought provoking - most importantly, I hope you find it inspiring!