tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post5959962652623646797..comments2023-07-07T06:52:33.856-04:00Comments on floatingsheep: The Urban Geographies of Tweets in AfricaMark Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00659652124105331552noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-49812333720990143022014-03-17T10:43:17.411-04:002014-03-17T10:43:17.411-04:00Hey, Sprawl would be populating the desert with su...Hey, Sprawl would be populating the desert with suburbs and cities, however, the overwhelming majority of Clark County is desert that has NOT been populated, just look at a map. Metropolitan areas are delineated at the county level, and the Southwest has huge counties because that's just how someone decided to draw the lines on the map.Thank you!<br />......................................>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><br /><a href="http://streamafrica.com" rel="nofollow">StreamAfrica</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05113485965761560352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-60657737101021534782014-02-20T04:23:14.923-05:002014-02-20T04:23:14.923-05:00Thanks for Posting ! first time I have found a gen...Thanks for Posting ! first time I have found a genuine post related to <a href="http://www.knetgh.com/" rel="nofollow"><b>Best ISP in Ghana and west Africa</b></a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-87960732510244278852013-03-02T23:19:30.181-05:002013-03-02T23:19:30.181-05:00Matt,
Thanks for the reply. Downloading tweets e...Matt,<br /><br />Thanks for the reply. Downloading tweets eats up a lot of network bandwidth, so the idea was to limit load on the server by restricting the csv download functionality to those with Havard IDs. If you need geocoded tweets though, please see the page I set up here... http://geops.csail.mit.edu/geo_tweets/ . You'll need to follow the instructions on the page and use the provided script which will set up a partitioned (by day) postgres database and download and restore the dumps for you automatically. Should be about a billion tweets in these files, but you can download any subset of dates you want. I'll eventually put up csv files of the tweets when I get the time. Hope this helps! Kedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01590451401931670104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-72122660023145117622013-02-28T23:13:19.757-05:002013-02-28T23:13:19.757-05:00Thanks for the link. Why, though, do you limit wh...Thanks for the link. Why, though, do you limit who can download a CSV of the data (in my case, tweets) that are being explored? Thank you!<br />Matt Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04132372815717951305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-88177726491926612562013-02-26T23:19:34.080-05:002013-02-26T23:19:34.080-05:00Nice post! I would like to direct your readers to...Nice post! I would like to direct your readers to http://worldmap.harvard.edu/tweetmap, where they can make such maps interactively as well as render heatmaps of the percentage of tweets that contain a query term. TweetMap is powered by a GPU database that I've been building, which can use any number of GPUs to allow queries like these to be run in real-time (we use 4 Nvidia 680s on this system). We eventually should have a billion tweets online for people to search interactively.Kedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01590451401931670104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-31951358357781491092013-02-25T23:16:23.405-05:002013-02-25T23:16:23.405-05:00Thanks for the awesome post, and the papers discus...Thanks for the awesome post, and the papers discussing its relevance. I am curious, though, what technology do you use to query and mine the tweets? ThanksMatt Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04132372815717951305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-10952847413001501902013-02-17T12:30:10.816-05:002013-02-17T12:30:10.816-05:00Interesting to see the Nairobi map with lots of tw...Interesting to see the Nairobi map with lots of tweets in most of the populated parts except the Kibera slums.Abbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15629057215561364645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-44080191364628418512013-02-15T16:45:28.668-05:002013-02-15T16:45:28.668-05:00Would it be possible to share the methodology wher...Would it be possible to share the methodology whereby this twitter data was geocoded?We got thishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13233861628051989950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-8633790391375026582013-02-15T10:33:40.908-05:002013-02-15T10:33:40.908-05:00The Cape Town image is missing.The Cape Town image is missing.Grant Slaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06791271026762492378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-42428536812318635372013-02-15T00:23:37.341-05:002013-02-15T00:23:37.341-05:00Thanks for sharing! Did you analyse Dar es salaam ...Thanks for sharing! Did you analyse Dar es salaam as well? I think that image might have gotten left off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-33781820820822105292013-02-14T08:32:36.895-05:002013-02-14T08:32:36.895-05:00I agree, this is impressive! I'd be interested...I agree, this is impressive! I'd be interested in a map of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Is there any way to retrieve this information?B.Hofstätterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08608216871136725142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-30898939396742436352013-02-14T05:50:33.502-05:002013-02-14T05:50:33.502-05:00Great visualizations! I'd love to see Douala, ...Great visualizations! I'd love to see Douala, Cameroon, mapped, if you ever do a second batch!Nicolas Kayser-Brilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10902923420678527504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-90774087735237916342013-02-13T10:45:12.900-05:002013-02-13T10:45:12.900-05:00This is fascinating. Thank you for posting this! C...This is fascinating. Thank you for posting this! Could you map tweets in and around Kumasi, Ghana (Ghana's second largest city), Kampala, Uganda (capital) and Harare, Zimbabwe? Or, is there a tutorial out there on how to do this?Carihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06145388482791993146noreply@blogger.com