Doug: I'm probably not clear on your objective, but are you folks aware of the work the Guardian did a couple years back on mapping the riots in London in real time using Tweets? See http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2011/08/august-2011-london-riot-maps.html
=tom On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]>wrote: > One of my projects is funded by NIH, and it sponsored (read: paid for) a > group of 15 of us software developer types from 10 different organizations > across the country who are working on the project to get together last week > in Las Vegas, NV to conduct a two-day hackathon. We split into three > groups, and my group produced some rough, ugly, but working Python and R > code. > > The Python code conducts keyword searches on archived 1% Twitter API data, > filtered to only search only those tweets that have valid geolocation > data. The short piece of R code calls a Google map API and plots the data > on a Google map in a browser, allowing the user to click on the geolocated > map points to view the originator's tweet text. > > Our next step will be to replace the R code with Python for calling the > Google map API. > > Here, it's ugly, but it's free. Don't say I never gave you anything. > > --Doug > > -- > *Doug Roberts > [email protected]* > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA<http://www.analyticjournalism.com/> 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] ==========================================
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