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Data: comparing trends across UK media
At Tweetminster we love data. As blogged yesterday, all the content we aggregate and share is curated by data, while all the analysis that we release is based upon trends and insight that is often captured from millions of tweets.
We’re keen to open up our data, and let you do cool stuff with it. We’re almost at a stage where we can do this, and are currently developing ways to make our data accessible, useful and scalable.
In the mean time, we thought it would be an interesting experiment to occasionally release sets of data to see what people come up with.
To kick things off, today we’re releasing spreadsheets with data for the 50 most mentioned issues and terms within tweets posted by UK media and journalists. The data is from tweets posted by official media accounts and journalists on Twitter. It was gathered between 23 August and 3 September 2010, and you can find lists of all sources and journalists used at @tweetminster/lists
This is an experiment for us and it’s work in progress. While the support we can currently provide is minimal, do send us your feedback (comments below), as we’re keen to make this work for you. And do let us know what you create with the data (@tweetminster)!
Get the data (from Google Docs):
Update: we’ve been asked about the license that comes with the data: you’re free to share, copy, distribute, transmit, remix and adapt the work. In short, you can do what you want with it. It would though be nice to mention and reference Tweetminster when using the data.
Tweetminster Data by Tweetminster is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.tweetminster.co.uk.
