The document summarizes a conference about how databases and spreadsheets track our activities and leave digital traces. It provides information on the conference discussions on Twitter, including word clouds of tweets, hourly tweet rates, and visualizations of connections between tweets. Links from the conference cover topics around personal data analysis, open data, and new forms of data visualization.

1. Follow the Money
A conference about the
role that databases and spreadsheets
play in our lives:
everything we do leaves traces behind
http://followthemoney.nu/
14th January 2010, Amsterdam @ Debalie

2. And this presentation
Is about
The traces left behind on twitter,
the official back channel of the conference

4. The tweeters
http://www.wordle.net/

5. Interfaces used to tweet during the conference
http://www.wordle.net/

6. The Conference’s Word Cloud, result of all the tweets
http://www.wordle.net/

7. The number of tweets by the hour and the Conference’s Programme and Speakers

8. This StreamGraph shows the usage over time of the
words most highly associated with the
#ftmoney hashtag
http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php

9. The Social Collider reveals cross-connections between the conversations that went on twitter
Posts that didn't resonate with anyone just connect to the next item in the stream. The ones that did,
however, spin off and horizontally link to users or topics who relate to them, either directly or in terms of
their content.
http://socialcollider.net

10. Tweets as seen by TwitArcs
http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitArcs/TwitArcs.html

11. #ftmoney twitter’s chronological mosaic

12. Some
interesting links
mentioned during
the conference

13. How Different Groups The Art and Science of Baby We feel fine
Spend Their Day names We Feel Fine is an
The American Time Use Find reliable expert exploration of human
Survey asks thousands information on baby name emotion on a global scale.
of American residents to meanings and popularity.
recall every minute of a day.
I.O.U.S.A. The short & simple story of Britain from above
A film that boldly examines the credit crisis An epic journey revealing
the rapidly growing national Gives form to a complex the secrets, patterns and
debt and its consequences situation like the credit crisis hidden rhythms of our lives
for the United States and its and quickly supply the from a striking new
citizens. essence of the situation to perspective.
those unfamiliar .

14. GPS London Taxis I love Alaska Sky-catcher
380 London taxis recorded On 2006 AOL accidentally Luna Maurer installed in
over the course of a single published a file on its site July 2005 on top of the roof
day. containing search keywords of De Balie in Amsterdam a
submitted by over 650.000 camera, which every five
users, this is the story of user minutes takes a picture of
#711391 the sky over the Museum.
Channelography URIplay Catalog tree
Creates statistics about BBC A metadata aggregator, giving Uncommon use of data, the
Programmes by reading and each file a URI and a simple output is fabulous print design!
analysing the captions. description. The service is not
intended to be used directly by
viewers.

15. News map Bijlmer Euro Govcom.org
The news presented visually The Bijlmer Euro is an People need Maps for more
and in flavors experimental currency that things than where to go. Maps
only circulates in the Bijlmer prompt people to rethink their
area of South East Amsterdam strategy
They Rule ‘PIMP MY PLANET" Processing
They Rule allows you to A short animated film and If you saw the visualization of
create maps of the game trailer in which the How The New York Times
interlocking directories of possibilities of playing God Illuminates The World the day
the top companies in the US are explored. Michael Jackson died, then you
in 2004 know that it was made with
Processing

16. Backstage.bbc.co.uk Backstage idea store, use Next Nature
backstage.bbc.co.uk is a pilot BBC stuff to build your stuff With our attempts to
for open innovation and Documentation for BBC cultivate nature, humankind
attempts to encourage and Feeds, APIs and content. causes the rising of a next
support those who have This is the complete list of nature, which is wild and
provided most of the data sources for you to unpredictable as ever.
innovation on the internet remix/mashup with.
There is a short summary of the
conference by Juliana Brunello
@ the Institute of network cultures
Gapminder weblog
Gapminder is a modern
“museum” that helps
making the world
understandable, using the
Internet.

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