Today's build

Work-in-progress (working) prototype for practitioner-friendly social media analysis toolkit...

...influential sites on left, followed by most cited people and organisations. Most-cited locations are geolocated on the map.

All nodes are active -- right-click to pull up a popup with ranked list of stories tying together the entity (person/place/organisation) and the topic of the analysis. The links in the popup are also live -- click to open default browser with the story.

This visualisation is to me MUCH more directly usable than the classic spidermaps, as a briefing and tracking tool.

Data sources (search engines, etc) for this are pulled by bespoke sensor modules -- adding a data source is less than a screen of code...

Next is adding longitudinal tracking and trend analysis/curve fitting....