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
