Research Interest Group on Video Games/Virtual Worlds
Last December, I initiated a Research Interest Group for Video Games and Virtual Worlds in my institution. We were finally able to meet this month. (Note to self: Spring may not be a good time for this kind of meetings, as we are all busy with reviewing conference proposals, reading thesis/dissertations, and attending conferences). Our [...]
Twitter Streamgraphs
WebMonkey has a short write-up about Twitter’s StreamGraph. This is a new text-mining product by Twitter (after it acquired Summize. It visually maps the latest 200 tweets containing a particular given word/phrase. One can also mine a user’s Twitter contribution using the “@user” search function call. “The StreamGraph shows the usage over time for the [...]