#15oct and #ows

15th October 2011 was a world-level milestone day: Millions of people aroud the globe occupied the streets to protest against global financial crisis, influenced in a great measure by the power of social networks, essentially Twitter. The protest movement, tagged as #15o and #15oct was heavily based upon #15m (Spain) and #ows (“Occupy Wall Street”), social movements around the notion that 99% of the people is NOT responsible of the ‘financial games’ played by a minor 1% that get rich in the process of sucking their wealth from the remaining 99% (#weare99)

The Process

We present evolution through time of related Twitter activity, around 15th October 2011. Taking a Dataset of 1.2 million tweets (ranging from 13th October to 18th October), we worked to offer some global (geolocated) visualizations, local visualizations (centered around New York, San Francisco, Barcelona and Madrid) and, lastly, a visualization about how did the associated hashtags evolved in that time frame.
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