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Visualizing The New Arab Mind
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- siculars 16y agoPowerful. I'll put this in the yet-another-reason-why-twitter-is-important-column. Makes beautiful, informative visualizations like this possible.
- tomkarlo 16y agoIt's the visibility of the relationships - all this could in theory be derived from looking at email / phone records, but of course those aren't available. And then there's Facebook...
- siculars 16y agoIt's not the method. It's the data. The fact that anybody with the know how now has access to public data is what is great about it.
- zeteo 16y agoAny info on the total number of English speakers in Egypt?
- sp332 16y agoIt's a popular "foreign" language in schools, like French is in the USA. Basically no one speaks it on a day-to-day basis.
- kloncks 16y agoNecessary correction. Don't compare it to a foreign language in the United States, even if it's Spanish. Egypt's much closer to other countries and has a huge tourism sector. Knowing a "foreign" language is vital; virtually everyone knows how to carry a basic conversation in English.
- zeteo 16y agoThere's quite a bit of a difference between "French in the USA", "Spanish in the USA" and "virtually everyone speaks it". Does anyone have any hard data? It does seem to dominate Twitter.
- kloncks 16y agoKeep in mind that the Internet is in English and English is quickly becoming the World's main language. Then, think about the millions of tourists who come to Egypt every year. The educated speak English; the un-educated can say English phrases. They both watch American movies. So, by "virtually everyone speaks it", I mean that virtually anybody can somewhat hold a conversation.
- gaius 16y agoEgyptians say that the more languages you speak, the better job you can get. Tho' you'll find as many speak Italian as their "European" language as speak English (and quite a few speak English with a strong Italian accent).
- hasenj 16y agoEnglish is taught in school (around the start of junior high school), so theoretically all educated people should be able to at least understand it and carry out simple conversations. Some countries teach French instead of English (I believe that's the case in Algeria and Tunisia; not sure about Lebanon).
- neilk 16y agoOn that page, someone asked what the red-blue cluster is at the bottom. I checked out a few dozen accounts in Twitter and it seems this is a cluster of Arabic software industry people and entrepreneurs.
- po 16y agoYeah I saw your comment there. I find it fascinating that the two groups using twitter that look "grafted on" are Journalists and Software entrepreneurs. Both groups are early adopters of twitter. I see those two grafted on bits as bridges to unseen nodes.
- baltcode 16y agoCan't reach the server anymore.
- DannoHung 16y agoI love me some Twitters and all, but isn't this somewhat self-selecting in the sense that technology leans younger?
- mrleinad 16y agoReminds me of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, 2nd GiG, and how people get self organized.
- w1ntermute 16y agoA SAC existed in original series as well, in the form of all the copycats of the Laughing Man, who never existed in the first place.