Hurricane data

Since that tropical storm passed through, Carson and I wrote a small Processing script that would record Tweets with the keywords of 'Hurricane' 'Storm' and 'Irene' with the intention to visualize the data somehow [to be done very soon].

Here are some observations from a cursory sweep of the data:
* People tend to retweet comical tweets
"RT @dgugnani: hurricane Irene is like #christmas- family & friends calling you, stores closed & at some point you may have a tree in your house!"

* Spike Lee tweets are especially popular for retweeting
RT @SpikeLee: On this Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina let's all pause and send Blessings and Prayers to those that lost their lives.GOD BLESS.AMEN.

* After the main storm had passed, people were a bit aggravated over the media hype