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Tasty Tweets: A Smoothie of Twitter Data

Posted by Brian Brunskill on June 22, 2012

 

 

Many of us share what we eat on social media, but imagine if what you eat is actually the result of what people share. Tasty Tweets was created by three creative designers from the Copenhagen Institute of Interactive Design.

Tasty Tweets collects Twitter mentions of specific words describing various fruits (blueberry, pineapple, apple or carrot) on Twitter and creates an edible smoothie representation of this. Twitter data so good you can taste it. As we all know, mentions and trends consistently change therefore no smoothie is identical.

Each smoothie's data is also represented graphically on a computer screen showing the proportions of flavors. Past smoothies can also be compared to one another via the historic view of trends over time. This is the most delicious data visualization we've seen yet.