tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.comments2023-07-07T06:52:33.856-04:00floatingsheepMark Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00659652124105331552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-43737147036866822012015-11-26T23:32:01.705-05:002015-11-26T23:32:01.705-05:00Indeed @Unknown. The references to "bere"...Indeed @Unknown. The references to "bere" in Italy, Spain, and England must be because of the huge number of Romanians living in those countries. That's really interesting! Over a million Romanian citizens live in Italy, a bit less in Spain, and even less in England. Awesome information, FloatingSheep 8-)Derek Kadenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10111062346613488549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-22819657501192311362015-11-09T19:01:20.727-05:002015-11-09T19:01:20.727-05:00Hello I am a GIS student at the University of Okla...Hello I am a GIS student at the University of Oklahoma, I am thoroughly curious how you were able to get a hold of the data for these projection? Twitter would be a great data source, but I can't figure out how you get the data in the first place. If you have the time I'd love to have access to this specific data set for a project I am doing for class.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-23270116770315566472015-02-26T21:26:04.834-05:002015-02-26T21:26:04.834-05:00Yippee! I did, in fact, some for the sheep several...Yippee! I did, in fact, some for the sheep several years ago and have stayed for the maps (I was searching for sheep clip art images). I have the sweatshirt to prove it, so I think it's about time you made the appropriate map. Thanks for all the maps, and Happy New Year!LauraRosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17663573937737042707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-76994234477987523572015-02-07T08:50:03.930-05:002015-02-07T08:50:03.930-05:00Why there are no data about Balearic Irelands were...Why there are no data about Balearic Irelands were they also speak catalan and are also part of Spain?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05913962970893175520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-64449742038406358512015-01-10T19:34:11.459-05:002015-01-10T19:34:11.459-05:00Well done...timely as usual! My instinctive commen...Well done...timely as usual! My instinctive comment on your results is that different proximities may explain the patterns: geographical (Denmark and Belgium); cultural (ex-colonies and French speaking countries); "interst" proximity for those countres that have recently experienced attacks (Canada and Australia) or live in an environment exposed to terrorist Attacks (India and Pakistan)...Cristinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13096796208256370939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-64173275612938490322015-01-09T17:06:14.413-05:002015-01-09T17:06:14.413-05:00Could you do the same review for the Australian si...Could you do the same review for the Australian siege that triggered the #illridewithyou hashtag? It would be interesting to see if that one had the same traction and dynamics.Mike40245https://www.blogger.com/profile/16190215158233070774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-42896055390820754842015-01-09T12:11:34.124-05:002015-01-09T12:11:34.124-05:00Quick comment:
India and Pakistan: fear of terror?...Quick comment:<br />India and Pakistan: fear of terror?<br /><br />Canadians: French Canada, for sure.<br /><br />US: here in Brazil too people gave more attention to the Paris attacks then to local attacks on press. I guess it’s safer, more attractive, to deal with stuff a bit far away. But I am asking myself the same. Here, politicians are horrified by the Paris attacks, but not so much with the murder of bloggers who might have questioned them.<br />I was interested in the higher use of the tags in Pacific America. Are they more global? Or are there less users, and therefore a higher proportion of educated users compared to Brazil?Helôhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17732106701158263198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-22292542493453079292015-01-01T00:55:13.499-05:002015-01-01T00:55:13.499-05:00Can anyone help me by taking my survey. Click the...Can anyone help me by taking my survey. Click the link below to see the map and then there is a link in the map to the survey. Collecting data for my masters thesis.<br />Favorite Team. Least Favorite Team<br />Click on image below to VOTE for favoite team and least favorite NFL team<br />http://chandcole.cartodb.com/viz/3516c078-7a66-11e4-8f61-0e853d047bba/embed_mapAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883966217425844213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-52008172996000678932014-12-23T21:22:38.334-05:002014-12-23T21:22:38.334-05:00I have the answer as to why Ohio is particular abo...I have the answer as to why Ohio is particular about pumpkin spice > the Pumpkin Show! The Pumpkin show is a festival that takes place in Circleville starting the 3rd Wed of October. Over 400,000 people visit Circleville over the four day festival. That's not bad for a town of approx. 13,000 citizens.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074861769024602456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-82125473439970834102014-12-21T20:38:41.109-05:002014-12-21T20:38:41.109-05:00Sorry that not everything can fit in a tweet, Terr...Sorry that not everything can fit in a tweet, Terry.Taylor Sheltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298678765648978003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-10972421892776627202014-12-21T20:37:22.734-05:002014-12-21T20:37:22.734-05:00In short, yes. :)In short, yes. :)Taylor Sheltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298678765648978003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-50029796333139934862014-12-21T16:09:34.358-05:002014-12-21T16:09:34.358-05:00Thanks. Let me play this back and make sure I got ...Thanks. Let me play this back and make sure I got it. Are you saying that you calculated a West End/East End total tweet split, and they compared the ratios of tweets in each individual cell relative to that overall ratio and used that to assign the shading?The Urbanophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094204641794131438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-16631478984384674612014-12-21T07:14:17.311-05:002014-12-21T07:14:17.311-05:00Never heard the saying "Brevity is the soul o...Never heard the saying "Brevity is the soul of wit"? Or was this an homage to the days of being paid by word and using the most possible words to tell a story?<br />DocSkinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14325442765858363317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-70485447676317710002014-12-21T07:12:35.993-05:002014-12-21T07:12:35.993-05:00TL;DRTL;DRDocSkinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14325442765858363317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-80116959344944417382014-12-18T17:36:49.471-05:002014-12-18T17:36:49.471-05:00Terrific critique. Well argued. I posted something...Terrific critique. Well argued. I posted something similar for one of Eric's previous maps in 2013 (http://cartonerd.blogspot.com/2013/06/3-billion-tweets-on-map.html) and at the time said much the same. The problem isn't so much to do with the map per se, it's to do with the hype and the rhetoric that accompanies it (and others, this isn't specific to Eric's map).<br /><br />There's nothing intrinsically wrong with making a map of a load of latitude/longitude pairs. A lot of people are doing the same. Where Eric goes beyond most is making the map really beautiful. Could you imagine it with emoji symbols instead? But I see many maps these days have titles that simply don't match the work. They generate interest and capture people's imagination (and get blogged, liked and retweeted) but unfortunately those same people aren't able to assess the map in the same way as presented here. They treat it at face value. In truth, maps have always lied and this is not a new problem but I fear unless we begin to cast our maps in a more objective, less sensational fashion we risk damaging trust beyond repair.<br /><br />I looked at Eric's map and immediately saw flaws because I know something of the data and the impact of his choice of methods. I liked it to look at and I could largely ignore the title because it makes the map out to be something it isn't. I think it's time to respect the readers of our maps a little more and not be so quick with the grandiose claims.<br /><br />Experimental mapping is great. Great looking maps are great. We need to develop a healthier way of telling people what it is they're looking at. Making a map of latitudes and longitudes is fine but they don't tell is this, or that or whatever other fanciful assumption we might make from combining the image with a sensationalist title. The campaign for modest map titles starts here!Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15699366133342613861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-55860949704848053332014-12-18T15:39:57.473-05:002014-12-18T15:39:57.473-05:00@Eric: Thanks for the thoughtful reply and further...@Eric: Thanks for the thoughtful reply and further clarification of what you meant by 'detail'. Of course, the bigger question of what that particular definition of detail does, and how it was interpreted and reframed by the world-at-large when writing about your map, remains...<br /><br />An issue you raise, which we didn’t touch on in our blog post, is the issue of access to this kind of data, and what it means that many people are unable to access this data because they either lack the necessary technical skills to collect it themselves, or the Twitter Terms of Service bars those of us with these large databases at our fingertips from sharing them widely, all because Twitter stands to make some money from selling the data through their partnership with GNIP. <br /><br />There’s definitely something powerful about people being able to explore this data for themselves — I think the same is even more true of your earlier work on tourists vs. locals and on the use of iPhones vs. Android phones — and it’s easy to forget that there are plenty of folks who *should* have access to this data who don’t, and that this actually keeps people from asking and answering more complex questions with this kind of data. And perhaps it’s because of this lack of access to experiment and do more with the data that people tend to be, I would argue, overly fascinated by the map itself, and not more critical or inquisitive about what other things we could be doing with data.<br /><br />Anyways, thanks again for engaging! Hopefully we can keep this conversation going in some way, shape or form!Taylor Sheltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298678765648978003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-15829924815489752792014-12-18T14:06:45.748-05:002014-12-18T14:06:45.748-05:00Thanks for putting so much attention into analyzin...Thanks for putting so much attention into analyzing this map and what it might mean.<br /><br />As I said on Twitter, the reason I called it "the most detailed ever" is because it does have more points on it and lets you zoom in further than any other tweet map I have ever seen. Twitter's own archives must have more points, but those archives aren't accessible.<br /><br />And you're right: it doesn't tell anyone very much that they didn't already know. That's why I framed the blog post as a tutorial on how to make dot maps, rather on anything particularly special in this one.<br /><br />The things I think are genuinely interesting about Twitter data are that it shows where the non-residential concentrations of people are, and how those places relate to each other by travel and by communication. I still struggle with how to show those relationships between places on a map, but even showing the concentrations at arbitrary scale is challenging enough that it's worth talking about.<br /><br />At the same time, I do think there is value in simply making things like this available to the public. The reaction has demonstrated that there are a lot of people who are interested in scrolling around and seeing what the activity patterns look like in places that they know or are interested in knowing. When you have this sort of data available at your own disposal to answer your own questions, it's easy to forget that not everyone has it until you expose it to them.<br /><br />I'm glad that your local knowledge of Louisville lets you go further into what the tweets there mean. My hope is that someday I will be able to form a general theory of friction between nearby places and how those gaps might be able to be bridged.Eric Fischerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17717107532168518915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-87014043268226609762014-12-18T14:01:55.558-05:002014-12-18T14:01:55.558-05:00I assume you're referring to the discussion of...I assume you're referring to the discussion of the odds-ratio measure here... In effect, the odds-ratio compares the relative number of tweets between the two groups in a given hexagon relative to the overall balance of tweets between the two groups. So by "expected", we mean the overall distribution of West End vs. East End tweets, which is compared to a more micro-level distribution within certain areas. So a value of 1 signifies that the relative number of tweets in a given area is equivalent to the overall distribution between the two groups, rather than meaning that the two numbers are exactly equal. Does that make sense?Taylor Sheltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298678765648978003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-64409158580119511612014-12-18T12:01:21.338-05:002014-12-18T12:01:21.338-05:00Query: What's your definition of "expecte...Query: What's your definition of "expected" tweets? Thx. The Urbanophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094204641794131438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-44638532415361400492014-12-02T23:19:08.513-05:002014-12-02T23:19:08.513-05:00Where I stay in Amsterdam, we have seedling nurser...Where I stay in Amsterdam, we have seedling nurseries and the like and it's easy to figure out where what is growing. But while marijuana isn't legalised EVERYWHERE yet, it's safe to say that you're going to have difficulties pinpoint production hot spots because there are still a lot of delinquents out there with backyard crops. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17314145654456007603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-31384130696094021092014-11-28T01:56:26.122-05:002014-11-28T01:56:26.122-05:00(link to code example at end) The Twitter streamin...(link to code example at end) The Twitter streaming API returns a volume equal to up to 1% of the total number of tweets being sent at any one time. Thus, if you use the filter API to monitor a relatively small/inactive area where the total number of geotagged tweets does not exceed 1% of tweets globally at any time you should have complete or nearly complete coverage.<br /><br />@Jim - Sounds like you are monitoring for keywords and then filtering for geotagged tweets. Perhaps try the opposite of collecting geotagged tweets for a given area and then selecting only the ones with the keywords you want.<br /><br />For anyone getting started with the Twitter API, some example code free at https://github.com/computermacgyver/twitter-pythonScotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02535367785847128478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-38904558269150649612014-11-27T17:27:07.354-05:002014-11-27T17:27:07.354-05:00Yeah, that makes the map definitely wrong for Spai...Yeah, that makes the map definitely wrong for SpainElihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13364428297084946947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-49730624901268921892014-11-23T22:56:53.492-05:002014-11-23T22:56:53.492-05:00Good post ! Its nice to see..Good post ! Its nice to see..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-86160563187483674382014-11-19T10:25:51.136-05:002014-11-19T10:25:51.136-05:00Streaming API is a subset. They should use Twitter...Streaming API is a subset. They should use Twitter GNIP: correct?NetRACEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08223308086604312176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1166669645725536266.post-60668730954332135962014-11-11T14:42:27.542-05:002014-11-11T14:42:27.542-05:00Or the fact that "llama" in spanish mean...Or the fact that "llama" in spanish means also flame.Aranluchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10675731824434569163noreply@blogger.com