Protocol

Introduction

For the first visualization, namely “The other side of the coin” in order to verify if the so called “Streisand Effect” actually happened, we used the tool Google Trends. Thanks to it we were able to visualize either the single trends or them altogether.
For the second visualization, the one called “Costeja in the limelight” we analysed each and every single result given by Google once we entered the query “Mario Gonzales Costeja”. We then were able to order them by year or by type of result, in order to get a full overview of how much and in what way the web talks about him.

Step of the procotol - The other side of the coin

We chose to analyze the search trends of specific people based on their occurrence during our research and, if in their country a specific fact regarding Right to be forgotten happened, on their nationality too:

Mario Gonzales Costeja
Nikki Catsouras
Dougie McDonald
Walter Sedlmayr
Virginia Da Cunha

We then put these names on Google Trend in order to analyse them in two ways: an absolute analysis and a relative analysis.
For the first one we entered all the names at the same time and, once Google Trends provided us the visualization, downloaded the .csv file. We then generated a dataset with one shared column (Time) and one dedicated to each person containing the Value of the searches (from 0 to 100, where 100 is the max value belonging to Nikki Catsouras).

For the second one we proceeded in the same way, except for the fac that this time we entered the name one by one and downloaded each .csv separately. This way each .csv will have only two columns: Time and Value (from 0 to 100).
Finally, we proceeded to our two visualizations.