Twitter Weather: condensing the cloud.
A user-trained web service that visualizes the Internet's mood on topics as weather reports.
Opportunity
The vast amounts of user-generated content on the Web often produce information overload as frequently as they provide enlightenment. How can large quantities of text be reduced into meaningful data?
Solution
Gauging the trending emotional valence - whether people talking about a topic on the Internet are feeling positive or negative about it - can extract meaning out of a flood of conversations. Twitter Weather visualizes the prevailing mood about Twitter topics by rendering a weather-report-style display. Supporting Twitter Weather is a user-trained Web service that aggregates and visualizes attitudes on a topic.
In concert with Stephanie Bian.