Now we’re getting somewhere! It took most of last night reading up on long forgotten SQL-skills. I present to you, the most prolific tweeters:

OK, I need to do something about the graphical stuff. The text is pretty cramped.

The magic? This SQL-style selection.

SELECT C, COUNT(A) GROUP BY C ORDER BY COUNT(A) DESC LIMIT 15

Combined with choosing BarChart rather than lines. It really is that simple. Although it certainly was anything but simple to figure out (until I gave up, and consulted my sql-books).

What else? I want a graph showing the number of tweets as a function of time. I would also like a wordcloud. And a tagcloud. I dont think I can make that with the google framework. Or maybe I can: I’d better take a look at this page. The tag-cloud would be easier if I import other fields from the tweets to the spreadsheet. 

And if I want a count – it appears that I have to add “=ROW()” to a column in the spreadsheet. That will, I hope, give me a counter.

Of course, that is going to seriously mess up the chart above. But it will only take a change of two letters, to fix. Next step will be to import all fields from the tweets to the database. Just a moment 🙂