twitter - messages from placeGSA conference 2010-11-02fabian neuhaus, CASA, UCL

www.urbantick.blogspot.comfabian.neuhaus@ucl.ac.uk

Content

• Twitter messages

• Spatial component

• Twitter facts

• From density to landscape NCL

• Aspects of time - tracking, usage, topics

• Outlook

Tweet-O-Meter

Twitter Messages in London over one Week

Tweets in an Urban Conext

Data collected

Locating the messages

New York

New City Landscape

London

Munich London Paris New York

San FranciscoSydney BarcelonaMoscow

Hong Kong Chungqing Beijing New York

New City Landscape - Airports

New YorkMoscowLondon

MunichParisSan Francisco

Aspects of time - usage

• Paris and Munich

Aspects of time - usage

Aspects of time - topics

• Hashtag visualisation as a word cloud

• Data collected end of April early May

London New York

Denver NCL

Click HERE for a interactive online version of the map.

Summary

• Locate digital social network activity

• Mapping the twitter activity hotspots

• Visualising the virtual platform

• Relating it to the urban Context

Outlook

• Text content incorporation

• Detailed city comparison

• Linking to other data sets - validation

• Temporal aspects

• Research framework links to GPS tracking

• Data handling, workflow

fabian.neuhaus@ucl.ac.uk

More details on www.urbantick.blogspot.com

Special thanks to Steven Gray for the software programming and Andre Hudson-Smith.