The New York Times’ Cascade: Data Visualization for Tweets [VIDEO]

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MASHABLE – by Jolie O’Dell

The research and development department of The New York Times has recently been pondering the life cycle of the paper’s news stories in social media — specifically, on Twitter. Cascade is a project that visually represents what happens when readers tweet about articles.

Even now, however, Cascade is more than just a nifty data visualization. [Read more…]