DATA Portrait

[Micro-blog authors use mobile text messaging or web interfaces to post short
answers to the question What are you doing?, creating a stream-of-consciousness
account of their daily encounters, musings, plans and actions. Using salient words
from an individual’s postings, Data portrait visualize the topical and temporal patterns
to create a portrait of the author. The words on the left side of the silhouette show the
daily rhythm (one day is two seconds) while the right side shows a cumulative view.]

I used to have a personal website to link all my work, to post personal diary, and to 
interact with others. Since SNS appear to the web, I found it convenience to manage 
my work or to interact with others, because I simply needed to link my services
somewhere visually. I just started a twitter this summer, because it was cheaper than
TXT message sent from my cellphone. It was more like a tool for me to communicate
with others, and I wasn’t paying attention to what others wrote. As I spend more time
on twitter to express myself, I realized that twitter was not about showing who you’re,
rather it was for how I want be to shown.  Through twitter service, people tries to make
themselves up, and creating their own image based on what they want others to think
about them. Thus, it was all about their projected portrait image by the service.
I thought DATA Portrait is an good example of exploring this notion of SNS service
creating one’s portrait image. Twitter is text based service, and DATA Portrait
implements this text into visual form which fit perfectly into twitter’s contents.