when Game of Thrones meets Network Vis...

...you win and you win

@kristw (https://twitter.com/kristw) will share a behind-the-scenes view of his latest data visualization project, which shows how each #GameOfThrones (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GameOfThrones?src=hash) episode was discussed on Twitter. Using data visualization, we can extract and reveal the stories of every episode from fans’ Tweets.

https://interactive.twitter.com/game-of-thrones (https://t.co/DaryrIs8SG)

You may not be sure how Lord Varys (http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Varys) collects information from his little birds (http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Little_birds), but in this talk you will hear how we can collect information from our little birds. Topics include, but are not limited to:

network visualization

Tweets

force-directed layouts

data cleaning

Game of Thrones

some React

some Vega

some more cleaning

p.s. never seen the show? that's ok. come enjoy the #d3js all the same 😃