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Comment on A full Twitter index in your Thinkup by Week 300 at Alper.nl

Week 300 at Alper.nl — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:54:26 +0000

[...] announced the general availability of your own tweets for download in archive form. I had done some preliminary work on this when this option was available to Europeans and now ThinkUp is busy building a full-fledged [...]

Comment on Services by Week 287: kohi, praxis at Alper.nl

Week 287: kohi, praxis at Alper.nl — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:26:46 +0000

[...] also wrote the new services overview for Monster Swell. A realign had been in order for a while [...]

Comment on Services by Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Recap of last year and a realign

Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Recap of last year and a realign — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:30:57 +0000

[...] Services We help people with their data by creating compelling visual representations and interactive tools. [...]

Comment on Information Compression on Paper by Cool Business images – Educational Degree

Cool Business images – Educational Degree — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:04:30 +0000

[...] Business Card Backside Image Context on these business cards for my company Monster Swell: monsterswell.com/blog/2010/12/information-compression/ [...]

Comment on Information Compression on Paper by Business Card Backside | One Step To Information

Business Card Backside | One Step To Information — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:34:06 +0000

[...] Context on these business cards for my company Monster Swell: monsterswell.com/blog/2010/12/information-compression/ [...]

Comment on A full Twitter index in your Thinkup by Mijn Twitter-data in 5943 kB (zip-file) | Jerry Vermanen

Mijn Twitter-data in 5943 kB (zip-file) | Jerry Vermanen — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:45:20 +0000

[...] verder analyseren en visualiseren. Ondertussen probeer ik deze data in Thinkup te importeren via een script van Alper Çuğun om mijn volledige Twitter-geschiedenis op één plek te [...]

Comment on Designing in the Face of Defeat by Week 274: programming for n00bs, meetups, matches and hackathons at Alper.nl

Week 274: programming for n00bs, meetups, matches and hackathons at Alper.nl — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:48:26 +0000

[...] work after the couple of days in Copenhagen. I also discovered that the talk I gave in Rotterdam “Designing in the Face of Defeat” about the New Aesthetic has been recorded and you can watch it [...]

Comment on Designing in the Face of Defeat by Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Dynamic Design Video

Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Dynamic Design Video — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:59:48 +0000

[...] presentation ‘Designing in the Face of Defeat’ written up below, has been recorded by the kind people of the WdKA and is viewable [...]

Comment on A full Twitter index in your Thinkup by How to get more than 3200 tweets from Twitter (if you live in a country in the EU, that is) – marks.dk

Fri, 11 May 2012 14:33:51 +0000

[...] what I gather, you can upload the files to ThinkUp based on a modified php-script, but that’s way beyond me to do [...]

Comment on A full Twitter index in your Thinkup by Week 267: Hack and Tell, Thinkup, Gesellschaft im digitalen Wandel, Taobao and Gallery Weekend at Alper.nl

Fri, 04 May 2012 07:55:10 +0000

[...] Wednesday I wrote up the Thinkup thing over at Monster Swell: “A full Twitter index in your Thinkup” and requested my full history from [...]

Comment on A full Twitter index in your Thinkup by Week 266 at Alper.nl

Week 266 at Alper.nl — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:32:25 +0000

[...] Wednesday I spent the whole day hacking Thinkup and after went to see Brecht in the [...]

Comment on A full Twitter index in your Thinkup by Martin

Martin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:36:26 +0000

Good work! Although some (old?) stuff doesn’t seem to be correct (e.g. Most Replied); I see very old tweets there and I’m almost 100% sure that I have tweets with more replies.

And I also get an Error 500 (Internal Server Error) on updating the account.

Nevertheless, these seem to be minor thingies.
I wished more than one time I would have an archive to search all tweets or to just see what I tweeted 1 (2,3…) years ago. Now, thats pretty easy to do.

Comment on A full Twitter index in your Thinkup by Anil

Anil — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:08:59 +0000

Fantastic work! Really inspiring to see how everyone’s efforts on this problem are coming together. The potential here is amazing.

Comment on Information Compression on Paper by Cool Business images – ACCREDITED ONLINE SCHOOL

Cool Business images – ACCREDITED ONLINE SCHOOL — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:10:24 +0000

[...] Business Card Backside Image Context on these business cards for my company Monster Swell: monsterswell.com/blog/2010/12/information-compression/ [...]

Comment on Early 2012 Schedule by Week 255: Games, hacks, art and coworking at Alper.nl

Week 255: Games, hacks, art and coworking at Alper.nl — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:03:18 +0000

[...] I also blogged about the 2012 Q1 events schedule both personally and professionally. [...]

Comment on Parliamentary Interruptions by Laura Wismans » Blog Archive » Sargasso’s fitties: interupties in de kamer

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:17:09 +0000

[...] een hele mooie visualisatie die Alper Çuğun naar aanleiding van de artikelen op Sargasso van de data heeft [...]

Comment on Parliamentary Interruptions by Political Mashup » Archief » Interruptiedata geanalyseerd door Sargasso

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:52:45 +0000

[...] Visualisatie [...]

Comment on Parliamentary Interruptions by Week 249 at Alper.nl

Week 249 at Alper.nl — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:15:15 +0000

[...] In the beginning of the week I spotted an interesting dataset on Sargasso, requested to play with it and got the following visual published the next day (our write-up). [...]

Comment on TIMEMAPS: a different perspective by Roel Groeneveld

Roel Groeneveld — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:36:31 +0000

Interesting idea, great implementation!

You mention that the Netherlands is a pretty ideal country. Some years ago the Volkskrant featured a similar, though static, map of France shaped by travel time. With, of course, Paris at the centre. The effect of the TGV on the shape of the country was profound.

I would love to see that as a dynamic TIMEMAP! :)

Comment on TIMEMAPS: a different perspective by TIMEMAPS | Datavissen.nl

TIMEMAPS | Datavissen.nl — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:36:15 +0000

[...] geïmplementeerd in HTML5 Canvas door Arjan Scherpenisse. Op de blog van MonsterSwell staat wat achtergrond informatie [...]

Comment on TIMEMAPS: a different perspective by Jan Willem Tulp

Jan Willem Tulp — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:23:43 +0000

Very very nice visualization! Reminds me of Tom Carden’s Time Travel Tube Map: http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/p5/tube_map_travel_times/applet/

Comment on Foursquare Map for Leidse Square ‘Entertainment Area’ in Effect by Week 234 at Alper.nl

Week 234 at Alper.nl — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:46:45 +0000

[...] about the Foursquare screen we made with a video which finally wrapped up that project (try to find a slot between 12:00 and 17:00 to [...]

Comment on Foursquare map display for Amsterdam nightlife by Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Foursquare Map for Leidse Square ‘Entertainment Area’ in Effect

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:24:09 +0000

[...] Finally got around to go the AUB Ticketshop at Leidse Square during the daytime to view the Foursquare Display we setup in action (previous blog post). [...]

Comment on Hackathons as gateways to more and better open data by Week 232 – extended at Alper.nl

Week 232 – extended at Alper.nl — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:31:52 +0000

[...] sustainability of app contests: “App outreach and sustainability” to which I wrote a reply “Hackathons as gateways to more and better open data” without knowing that it had already been replied to at Radar by Alex Howard: “Everybody jumped [...]

Comment on Apps for Amsterdam by Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Hackathons as gateways to more and better open data

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:38:57 +0000

[...] But yes, I do have my own doubts when it comes to the sustainability of apps from app contests as I have stated in my review of Apps for Amsterdam. [...]

Comment on Information Compression on Paper by Business Card Backside | bibilolo

Business Card Backside | bibilolo — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:25:05 +0000

[...] Business Card Backside Context on these business cards for my company Monster Swell: monsterswell.com/blog/2010/12/information-compression/ [...]

Comment on 10’000’000 Foursquare Users by Week 227 at Alper.nl

Week 227 at Alper.nl — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:38:35 +0000

[...] “Jane Jacobs and the city of Amsterdam” and also wrote a small something over at Monster Swell to commemorate the 10e6 Foursquare users milestone and Amsterdam’s small role in [...]

Comment on Open Data in Amsterdam Center Adopted by Open data ingebed in Amsterdam-Cetrum — Hack de Overheid!

Open data ingebed in Amsterdam-Cetrum — Hack de Overheid! — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:23:59 +0000

[...] loopt nog steeds voorop wat betreft het ontsluiten en aanbieden van open data. De notitie die vorig jaar werd aangenomen heeft geleid tot de Apps for Amsterdam-wedstrijd die een groot succes was en veel innovatieve [...]

Comment on Statlas: beta release by Week 224 at Alper.nl

Week 224 at Alper.nl — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:40:19 +0000

[...] Tuesday was another day spent in Utrecht and in between things I pushed out the releases for Statlas with posts in Dutch and English. [...]

Comment on Statlas: beta release by Week 223 at Alper.nl

Week 223 at Alper.nl — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:06:02 +0000

[...] the rest of the week was occupied with testing and preparing Statlas for a launch this week, which it did, so you can check it out and read more about that in next week’s [...]

Comment on Apps for Amsterdam by Week 219 at Alper.nl

Week 219 at Alper.nl — Sun, 29 May 2011 16:47:31 +0000

[...] was the Apps for Amsterdam awards ceremony. I wrote about the proceedings leading up to that event. The event was packed with a great vibe of appreciation for developers and [...]

Comment on Open Data in Amsterdam Center Adopted by Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Apps for Amsterdam

Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Apps for Amsterdam — Wed, 25 May 2011 13:56:37 +0000

[...] of Amsterdam. This proposal was accepted near unanimously by the commission in November (full write-up) and started a roller coaster ride for open data in Amsterdam that is now starting to have far [...]

Comment on Slides for ‘Fixing reality with data visualization’ by Why write about games? at Alper.nl

Why write about games? at Alper.nl — Sun, 15 May 2011 11:27:24 +0000

[...] And finally there is the dilemma what kind of medium has the largest impact, whether to write in Dutch or English, to aim for print or online or forego writing for other ways of making a point such as debates and presentations. [...]

Comment on Foursquare map display for Amsterdam nightlife by Week 216 at Alper.nl

Week 216 at Alper.nl — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:44:41 +0000

[...] up the project we did for the Amsterdam UIT Bureau: Foursquare map display for Amsterdam nightlife. We are very happy to have been able to do this project and we look forward to its debut in the [...]

Comment on Slides for ‘Fixing reality with data visualization’ by Philip Man

Philip Man — Mon, 09 May 2011 08:44:04 +0000

Hey Alper,

Nice post and good thinking. I share your dispute on the whole gamification debate. To me, especially the superficial gamification is pretty much a hype to be debunked. What you see in Foursquare is that the game elements have taken over the core motivation of Foursquare, which is to share cool places with friends. Game mechanics should be a mean and not an end. Whenever that happens, the value for the user will eventually decline.

I like the way you compare data visualizations with games. Quite coincidental, I recently have done the same in a short post, but from a whole other perspective. Haha, I guess that is the difference between my background of humanities and your technical background. If you want to read it, it’s here:
http://owni.eu/2011/04/19/what-data-visualization-can-learn-from-game-design/

best,

Philip

Comment on Mapping voter sentiment in the Netherlands by Week 215 at Alper.nl

Week 215 at Alper.nl — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:35:01 +0000

[...] Blogged about project potosi: Interactive Infographic for de Groene Amsterdammer also blogged about hermosillo: Mapping voter sentiment in the Netherlands [...]

Comment on Interactive Infographic for de Groene Amsterdammer by Week 215 at Alper.nl

Week 215 at Alper.nl — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:23:34 +0000

[...] about project potosi: Interactive Infographic for de Groene Amsterdammer also blogged about hermosillo: Mapping voter sentiment in the [...]

Comment on PvdA Canvassing by Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Mapping voter sentiment in the Netherlands

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:08:04 +0000

[...] ran a major update to the previous concept we did for the Dutch Labour Party using their canvassing results for the previous elections. The [...]

Comment on Contact by Slides Alper week 2 | Crosslabminor's Blog

Slides Alper week 2 | Crosslabminor's Blog — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:56:07 +0000

[...] met de opdracht en als je vragen hebt over de data of het concept kun je contact met me opnemen. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. ← research: ppt van [...]

Comment on Tegenlicht: Money & Speed — a touch documentary by meanwhile… » Blog Archive » Money & Speed – show me the data…

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:52:23 +0000

[...] on the ipad in the screenshot above) while impressive simply fail to convey much information (Alpher suggests that this is because ‘the information density is [...]

Comment on Tegenlicht: Money & Speed — a touch documentary by Week 203 at Alper.nl

Week 203 at Alper.nl — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:07:20 +0000

[...] also published my review of the iPad episode “Money & Speed” of the Tegenlicht documentary I got a preview [...]

Comment on Tegenlicht: Money & Speed — a touch documentary by Tweets that mention Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Tegenlicht: Money & Speed — a touch documentary -- Topsy.com

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:07:34 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Iskander Smit, Alper Çuğun. Alper Çuğun said: @GertJan Dit is de mijne: http://t.co/s5gPMNE [...]

Comment on Personal Mapping Platforms by Week 201 at Alper.nl

Week 201 at Alper.nl — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:18:12 +0000

[...] at the progress on the renderer, but I’m getting ahead of ourselves here. I rounded up the research I did on personal mapping platforms that are online [...]

Comment on Personal Mapping Platforms by alper

alper — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:38:36 +0000

@Maarten: Great suggestion (and I see also in Flash).

Comment on Personal Mapping Platforms by Maarten

Maarten — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:54:05 +0000

I think you should also check out GeoCommons (geocommons.com).

Comment on Personal Mapping Platforms by Tweets that mention Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Personal Mapping Platforms -- Topsy.com

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:21:13 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Alper Çuğun. Alper Çuğun said: RT @monsterswell: A list of personal mapping platforms that are out there right now as research for the Statlas project: http://t.co/uDqas9I [...]

Comment on Bloggers, transparency and our Catch-22 by Week 199 at Alper.nl

Week 199 at Alper.nl — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:53:49 +0000

[...] Blogged about the catch-22 in Dutch open data: “Bloggers, transparency and our Catch-22” [...]

Comment on Glanceable news using the new NOS API by Week 199 at Alper.nl

Week 199 at Alper.nl — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:48:49 +0000

[...] Monday I built a quick javascript mashup with the new API#mce_temp_url# by NOS called ‘Ons Nieuws’ (Our News): http://monsterswell.com/projects/onsnieuws/ inspired by the trend in glanceable display websites. The write-up is here: “Glanceable news using the new NOS API” [...]

Comment on Glanceable news using the new NOS API by Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Glanceable news using the new NOS API « Sales is an art and a science!

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:41:18 +0000

[...] Monster Swell » Blog Archive » Glanceable news using the new NOS API via monsterswell.com [...]

Comment on Bloggers, transparency and our Catch-22 by Age Mooij

Age Mooij — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:21:17 +0000

I’m sure you already know this but maybe you can point people at The Joy of Stats, the BBC documentary by statistics guru Hans Rosling. The whole last section is about open data and he uses the San Francisco crimespotting project as an example

You can watch it on YouTube: