Facebook Lexicon
I found an interesting visualization on Facebook a few minutes ago. If you’re on fb, check it out
From their Help Page
What is Lexicon?
Lexicon is a tool to follow language trends across Facebook. Specifically, Lexicon looks at the usage of words and phrases on profile, group and event Walls. For example, you can enter “love, hate” (without quotations) to compare the usage of these two words on Facebook Walls. You may enter up to five terms, where each term can be a word or two-word phrase consisting of letters and numbers.
How do I interpret Lexicon results?
Lexicon shows the number of users that posted each term per day on a profile, event or group Wall. It does not count repeated terms by the same user on the same day. This is to account for the seasonality of Wall posting in general; for example, there are fewer overall posts in the month of December. The text of each Wall post is also “cleaned” before it gets counted. For example, every word is converted to lower-case, and apostrophes are removed (so “You’ll” turns into “youll”).
I did a little playing and found a really interesting, but expected, cyclic graph when one puts in a term like “drunk” or “hungover”
Some Screenshots
Cyclic in Nature
Peaks happen on Sundays
Except for one day which is a really strong peak—New Years Day
