How bit.ly data shows the unrest in Egypt – and the internet shutdown | Strata conference 2011
bit.ly data scientist Hilary Mason explains how the unrest in Egypt – and the shutdown of the country’s internet – are reflected in the site’s statistics The unrest in Egypt – and the shutdown in the country’s internet activity – is reflected instantly in our data from the country. You can see what happened here at the end of January: The first graph shows clicks from Egypt on bit.ly links. It’s a simple line plot with each point indicating cumulative clicks per hour, and you can see the precipitous drop-off – from around 20,000 per hour to almost zero – when the majority of Egyptian ISPs shut down and a smaller drop-off just before February 1st when Noor, the last operating ISP, shut down. Finally, we see that connections have been restored and in the last few hours traffic has returned to almost normal levels. The second graph show clicks from anywhere in the world on URLs that contain content related to Egypt. It’s in UTC and not normalised by timezone, which shows that people around the world have consistently been interested in the topic over the last week. Interestingly, these results are reflected too in Arbor’s statistics from Egypt which measured activity across 80 networks . More data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world’s government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world’s global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at data@guardian.co.uk • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter Egypt Internet guardian.co.uk
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How bit.ly data shows the unrest in Egypt – and the internet shutdown | Strata conference 2011
bit.ly data scientist Hilary Mason explains how the unrest in Egypt – and the shutdown of the country’s internet – are reflected in the site’s statistics The unrest in Egypt – and the shutdown in the country’s internet activity – is reflected instantly in our data from the country. You can see what happened here at the end of January: The first graph shows clicks from Egypt on bit.ly links. It’s a simple line plot with each point indicating cumulative clicks per hour, and you can see the precipitous drop-off – from around 20,000 per hour to almost zero – when the majority of Egyptian ISPs shut down and a smaller drop-off just before February 1st when Noor, the last operating ISP, shut down. Finally, we see that connections have been restored and in the last few hours traffic has returned to almost normal levels. The second graph show clicks from anywhere in the world on URLs that contain content related to Egypt. It’s in UTC and not normalised by timezone, which shows that people around the world have consistently been interested in the topic over the last week. Interestingly, these results are reflected too in Arbor’s statistics from Egypt which measured activity across 80 networks . More data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world’s government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world’s global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at data@guardian.co.uk • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter Egypt Internet guardian.co.uk
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