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 😃

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@kristw (https://twitter.com/kristw) is a data visualization scientist @twitter (https://twitter.com/twitter) and prolific contributor to the d3 ecosystem of examples & tools. a small selection of his projects include:

https://interactive.twitter.com/

http://twitter.github.io/labella.js/

Whose Grid Map is better? Quality Metrics for Grid Map Layouts (https://medium.com/@kristw/whose-grid-map-is-better-quality-metrics-for-grid-map-layouts-e3d6075d9e80#.octyn9ral)

Create your own Grid Map, a semi-automatic way (https://medium.com/@kristw/creating-grid-map-for-thailand-397b53a4ecf#.yfyetrq23)

https://github.com/kristw/gridmap-layout-thailand

http://bl.ocks.org/kristw

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