Twittter Activity During the Presidential Inauguration Ceremony

A couple weeks ago Mashable had a post about Dataminr’s UI technology for the Presidential Inauguration Ceremony. Below are two maps that show some of the Twitter activity. You can read more about it on Mashable’s site: Twitter Was Watched for Security Threats During Obama’s Inauguration.

Presidential Inauguration Ceremony

Live Dataminr situational awareness of the Inauguration – 10 minutes of live event–related Twittter activity using reported and predicted user locations.

Presidential Inauguration Parade Route

Live Dataminr situational awareness of the Inauguration – 10 minutes of live event–related Twittter activity using reported and predicted user locations.

Michael is currently the Head of Design at Dataminr, the first real-time information discovery company for Finance, News and the Public Sector. He leads the UXD team and is responsible for the overall design and experience of the desktop app, mobile products (iPhone & iPad), email systems, internal products and external communications.

Recently he merged his passion for time pieces, technlogy and wearables by becoming an advisor to Nooka.

Since 2005 Michael has published his thoughts on design at Design Notes. Topics of interest range from people's daily experiences with technology to typography to photography among many others.

The 140 character version of what he's finding interesting can be found on Twitter at @MichaelSurtees. Photos are shared on VSCO, Flickr and Instagram.

When not designing, writing, or shooting photos, he loves cycling in and around the city. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees dot com.

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Michael Surtees is a product design director and practitioner of user experience design (UXD) based in NYC. He is currently the head of design at Dataminr, a company that is a certified Twitter partner using their firehose for clients in the areas of News, Finance and the Public Sector.

Since 2005 Michael has published his thoughts on design at Design Notes. Topics of interest range from people's daily experiences with technology to typography to photography among many others.

The 140 character version of what he's finding interesting can be found on Twitter at @MichaelSurtees. Photos are shared on VSCO, Flickr and Instagram.

When not designing, writing, or shooting photos, he loves cycling in and around the city. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees dot com.

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