Spreading of the Buzz

The U.S. Map

This project creates a bubble map to show the cultural impact of fashion trends in different countries or regions and how the propagation of the trends shows into the map. According to the effect of Flight/Bomber Jacket through the research and history, the project was moving to focus on only the United States and Japan. The maps show the recent two years’ data of people’s tweets about flight/Bomber Jacket and also list the number of the tweets in 4 major cities. The interaction of this map is by click the “Start” button and see dynamic effects of how trends spread into whole counties.
The results of those maps are evident, the involve of social media truly make the fashion buzz spread quickly, especially in major cities. Even Twitter users in Japan mostly tweet in Japanese, the data is based on English, the spreading of the buzz also could display in this map easily.