YAB » sparklines http://blog.alexgirard.com Yet Another Blog Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:14:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en [Ruby] TwittLine http://blog.alexgirard.com/ruby-twittline/ http://blog.alexgirard.com/ruby-twittline/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:32:03 +0000 alx http://blog.alexgirard.com/2007/11/12/ruby-twittline/ There’s always a nice thing to do during insomnia: close all the open ideas you’ve got in mind!

So I wanted to have something working about yesterday Twitter Timezone idea, here is the result after using Twitter4R and Sparklines gems:

TwittLine

The sparkline is only created from my friends last 20 twitts. With so few samples, we can’t really see any ‘timezone‘ effect, but some social behaviors appear:

  • Rush hours: some people twitts mostly during the evening;
  • Exclusives: others have only one or two big peaks, it would mean most of their 20 twitts were written in the same period of the day;
  • Flat twitting: twitts seems equally reparted all along the day.

This experience might be extend in the next days, opening it more to public test, and it’s still looking for your suggestions to improve by itself.

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