Here is a visualisation of the top 25 most influential news media accounts on Twitter, based on the number of followers. It is based on a list of the 100 most influential accounts, produced by Cornell University PhD student Daniel Romero. There is more to influence on Twitter than the number of followers, as a visualisation by Journalism.co.uk shows

This visualisation of Mark Thompson’s MacTaggart speech highlights the most commonly used two words. The visualisation shows Thompson placing an emphasis on British television, public service, British public and licence fee

With the G20 summit almost upon Toronto, here is a word cloud of the message to residents from the federal government and the City of Toronto: And here is one of the information for demonstrators from the G20 Integrated Security Unit

Using IBM’s ManyEyes, I did a word tag visualisation of the BBC Strategy Review (PDF), to reveal the most commonly used pair of words. The most common by far was “licence fee” mentioned 116 times. Next was “public space” with 60 mentions and “public service” at 47. As for the two digital stations facing closure, 6 Music was mentioned 21 times and Asian Network 13. Click on the image for

Image via Wikipedia I am very pleased to say that I have received a $10,000 award from IBM to support research into visualisation in journalism. Big thank you to the research team at IBM Canada for the grant.  We’ve been talking about doing some research into best practices in journalism for the use of IBM’s ManyEyes. Here’s the announcement posted to the UBC Graduate School of Journalism website: UBC journalism