[Air-L] Country specific social media data

Arkaitz Zubiaga arkaitz at zubiaga.org
Fri Aug 3 05:06:40 PDT 2018


On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 13:00, Shulman, Stu <stu at texifter.com> wrote:

>
> Finally, Twitter. It is the best bet, but filtering by location data means
> (not insignificantly) that you exclude the vast majority of Tweets from
> your data.


For Twitter you may want to check the country-level classifier we
developed: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7913605/

Code available here:
https://github.com/azubiaga/tweet-country-classification

This generalises very well to infer the country of origin on Twitter
timelines with no/limited geolocation data.

Arkaitz



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