Anna Simon of the The Greenville News featured the SMLC on Sunday, February 25th. Her article emphasized that the CyberInstitute created the SMLC to be an interdisciplinary workspace for students and faculty to search and visualize over 200 million real-time social media powered conversations.
If the many visitors to the lab are predictors of future use, the vision of students using the lab to study and research the Social Web will be realized. We've had folks from the College of Engineering and Science, the College of Architecture, Art, and the Humanities, the College of Business and Behavioral Science, Advancement, Campus Security, the Board of Trustees, and many other parts of campus attend demonstrations of the Center's capabilities. To a person, they are blown away by the reach of Radian6's social dataset. We amplify this reach with our ability to simultaneously project up to seven different real time visualizations of social conversations on six 42 inch monitors and two HD quality projectors.
Why is this important? Because understanding how to leverage the Social Web requires developing a curriculum and research agenda that helps folks not only to talk, but also to visualize, listen, and engage in meaningful "social" conversations. When we build a better understanding of how data moves across platforms (e.g., twitter, facebook, linkedin etc.) and are able to convert that into meaningful information, then we will achieve a deeper understanding of how to the online meets the offline and shapes the economic future of South Carolina.
If the many visitors to the lab are predictors of future use, the vision of students using the lab to study and research the Social Web will be realized. We've had folks from the College of Engineering and Science, the College of Architecture, Art, and the Humanities, the College of Business and Behavioral Science, Advancement, Campus Security, the Board of Trustees, and many other parts of campus attend demonstrations of the Center's capabilities. To a person, they are blown away by the reach of Radian6's social dataset. We amplify this reach with our ability to simultaneously project up to seven different real time visualizations of social conversations on six 42 inch monitors and two HD quality projectors.
Why is this important? Because understanding how to leverage the Social Web requires developing a curriculum and research agenda that helps folks not only to talk, but also to visualize, listen, and engage in meaningful "social" conversations. When we build a better understanding of how data moves across platforms (e.g., twitter, facebook, linkedin etc.) and are able to convert that into meaningful information, then we will achieve a deeper understanding of how to the online meets the offline and shapes the economic future of South Carolina.
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