[Air-L] Research on Twitter - a couple of questions

Stuart Shulman stuart.shulman at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 07:51:10 PST 2012


We have been doing some experiments with Twitter and geospatial data. I
just made a 3-minute video this morning that demonstrates the extremely
limited availability of geospatial data, even in Tweets collected using the
GNIP-enabled Power Track for Twitter (the full fire hose).

http://www.screencast.com/t/eVrP2y2UWf

This may change over time. I have recently talked to Michael Macy of
Cornell, who has made strides identifying techniques for using a
combination of features to peg the country of most Tweets. My sense,
however, is there is much work to be done.



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