This is quite brilliant! Good job.
The one million tweet map
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#12That's one big data. Do you have firehose access?
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#13I have no idea what use this could be to anyone, that being said it was extremely cool to zoom in on my little town and see five tweets going out from people just on the estate I live. *Edit I've just realised this is a demo show the power of http://v3.maptimize.com/ which is very cool.
Correct, I worked hard on that new version and I thought a lot before finding the idea of that demo to show what you can do with maptimize. I really like that tweet demo. You can find a lot of interesting information, like tweets in your area as you said. The heatmap is also interesting when you need to analyze huge amount of data like this. You can also see where twitter is very active. I was surprised to see that I…
I was also surprised about the activity in Indonesia. Another spot that caught my eye is halfway between Taipei and Japan. Turns out this is Okinawa which has a large US military base. I had expected much more activity in India.
When I zoom in, so that I can see city names, I find the selection of cities that are shown strange. Large cities seem to be missing outside of the US. For example I wasn't shown neither Rio de Janeiro nor Sao Paulo nor Belo Horizonte but Vitoria was there. In southern Germany there is Augsburg, Ingolstadt and Fuerth, but Munich (the only city with over a million inhabitants) is missing.
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#14That's one big data. Do you have firehose access?
What do you mean?
We just display data from twitter stream. You can use their stream if you want to
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#15According to what I saw, there were 2 of the last million tweets from canada, Toronto with 5.5 million people had 0 tweets, this seems highly improbable, perhaps Canada has some sort of privacy laws that prevent their data from showing up?
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#16I enjoyed it
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#17According to what I saw, there were 2 of the last million tweets from canada, Toronto with 5.5 million people had 0 tweets, this seems highly improbable, perhaps Canada has some sort of privacy laws that prevent their data from showing up?
This map shows only geolocalized tweets. Usually, tweets are geolocalized when they are sent with a mobile.
Also twitter stream don't send 100% of the tweets, it will be to huge. But statically speaking, it should be enough to have a good picture.
May be there are some restrictions in Canada.
This map give us a lot of information about twitter more than the first fun and wow effect. I like that!
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#18There 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.
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#19This blows my mind
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#20That's one big data. Do you have firehose access?
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?