Posts authored by Alastair Dant:


Thursday, 8 December 2011

Behind the rumours: how we built our Twitter riots interactive
Alastair Dant, Jonathan Richards

An interdisciplinary team of academics and some advanced web technologies were behind one of our most ambitious visualisations yet

Reading the riots  

A fake photograph appearing to show the London Eye burning down circulated on Twitter during riots

Friday, 11 March 2011

SXSW 2011: How we made our interactive band tracker
Alastair Dant, Lisa van Gelder, Matt Andrews

A hack weekend here, a site scrape there and pretty soon we had this wonderful new tool for tracking artists at the SXSW festival • Check out our SXSW 2011 band tracker

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