On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Brendan O'Connor <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Christian Heilmann <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php?user=codepo8
>>
>> What do you think?
>
>
> Hey, nicely done.  I like the maps.
>
> Are you sending the raw tweet texts to the Yahoo Placemaker service?  Do
> you try to use the tweet['user']['location'] data at all?
>
> It's interesting to look at the quality level of this yahoo service.
>  Unfortunately, it makes lots of mistakes.  I was looking at my own feed
> (since i know what i was trying to talk about):
> http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php?user=brendan642
>
> Out of 10 identifications, 5 of them are errors.
>

Hm, now i looked at yours and there's only 1 or 2 errors out of 15.

   - "@Tristan_Turpin"  !=  "Turpin, IL"
      - screen name is not a location
   - "Kentucky fried movie"   =?=  "Kentucky, US"
      - i dunno what this one is


I wonder if the error rate stably changes with different people.

Brendan

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