Is there a way to permalink to a specific location/magnification?
The one million tweet map
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#22There is quite an intense location on west coast of Africa, a bit below Nigeria that appears to be coming from somewhere in the ocean, just to the west of Sao Tome. Google maps is not showing me anything from that location like an island. Any idea why this might be? Also useful would be some sort of Distance scale/measure.
Looks like 0 degree latitude, 0 degree longitude. Probably tweets with no location info or bad location info.
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#23A million tweets isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion tweets.
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#24Very cool. I would suggest revising the scale of the bubbles so that 100 tweets does not have equal representation as 1500 tweets
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#25It would be interesting to aggregate the top similar tweets in these hot areas and show that as a tool tip. No idea how difficult that might be :)
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#26Really cool visualization - wish it went a step further when you got closer in (trendsmap.com style).
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#27There is quite an intense location on west coast of Africa, a bit below Nigeria that appears to be coming from somewhere in the ocean, just to the west of Sao Tome. Google maps is not showing me anything from that location like an island. Any idea why this might be? Also useful would be some sort of Distance scale/measure.
Looks like 0 degree latitude, 0 degree longitude. Probably tweets with no location info or bad location info.
That is Null Island
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean? We just display data from twitter stream. You can use their stream if you want to
Which stream are you using exactly. Are you applying any filters? Afaik the complete firehose has restricted access, or did that change? Edit: very cool visualization btw. What are you using exactly on the backend for stream processing?
I use the public stream with a filter on location (:locations => '-180,-90,180,90')
Twitter doesn't seem to have limitation for that.
The backend is written in Ruby. The daemon to index tweets use the great Intridea gem https://github.com/intridea/tweetstream.
The page http://onemilliontweetmap.com/ is simple Sinatra application, and I use REDIS pub/sub to push tweets to the browser.
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#29Very nice and more interesting than the bar charts/graph that other twitter visualization tools give us. It would be really cool (and informative) if you could add a small word cloud when the cursor hovers over a city.
I did a similar non-interactive dataviz a while ago during the big student protests in Quebec this spring. I clustered (using LDA) the tweets talking about the protests and I mapped and identified them.
http://olihb.com/?p=199 (in French, though)
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#30Is there a way to permalink to a specific location/magnification?
not yet, but good remark.
I will use history API to update the URL