How Smooth is Your Echo Chamber?
Co-Creator | Collaborators: Marijke Jorritsma
Data Visualization from 2D to 4D, Fall 2015
November-December 2015 (3 weeks)
The concept of an echo chamber is the idea that a person's ideas and beliefs are reinforced by following information sources that "echo" their viewpoints back to them instead of offering dissenting views. There are many factors in determining who a person will follow, one of which is location - a person is more likely to follow information sources and people who are from the same place they are from.
How Smooth is Your Echo Chamber? is a data visualization project analyzing the geographic locations of a person's network of people they follow on Twitter to generate a low poly version of their profile picture. The resulting image serves as a visual metaphor for how dynamic the person's world view is based on the diversity of their information sources on social media.
Click on a photo for details about each step of the process.
