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Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de... by jaysonelliot on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:54PM (#4610420)
It's a fun visualization to have up as a dashboard, I think I'll keep it running during the debates.

I love the design; it's very easy to read, and the simplicity and color make it easy to digest information at a glance.

My constructive criticism:

For the word frequency charts at the top of the screen, I'd weed out common words, and/or try to combine words into meaningful phrases. http://www.wordle.net/ does a good job with this (weeding out common words, not discerning phrases).

The number one thing I think people would be interested in would be some kind of sentiment analysis. Perhaps a knowledgable HN'er could suggest a service you could use for this?

From a UX perspective, I'd like the ability to pause and rewind the twitter streams, or filter them for specific words, phrases, geographic locations, or demographics.

One final nitpick, I would suggest using image meta-tags for sharing on Facebook. I posted the live.votizen.com page to my timeline, and there was no image to accompany the link. Here are the meta-tags you can use for richer sharing: http://davidwalsh.name/facebook-meta-tags

But yes, overall, I love this.

Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de... by jdunck on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @09:05PM (#4610444)
We have weeded out a bunch of stuff and are actually handling n-grams, but apparently not with enough weight since they aren't showing up ever.

What words do you think shouldn't be there?

Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de... by endtime on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @10:18PM (#4610604)
Looks, Look, Good

Also, you should think about stemming - "Looks" and "Look" should be in an equivalence class.

Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de... by erikrose on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @10:24PM (#4610617)
Perhaps we can bang a Snowball stemmer against it and get pretty good coverage on the whole language.