Data Visualization: Representing Information on Modern Web

Visualization

There is a whole bunch of APIs made available to us by Twitter. We should start perhaps by inventing something we would like to visualize and then decide if the data is available and how we would show it. I'm curious about which of the people I follow tweet the most. Some accounts such as @kellabyte seem to always be tweeting and others like @ericevans hardly at all.

Server side

Let's start by getting the data on the server side. In node.js, I set up a new route using the following code:

app.get('/friends', function(req, res){ if(!req.session.oAuthVars || !req.session.oAuthVars.oauth_access_token){ res.redirect('/requestOAuth'); return; } var cursor = -1; receiveUserListPage(res, req.session.twitterVars.user_id, req.session.oAuthVars.oauth_access_token, ...