[GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Spatial analysis of social media (e.g. tweets)

[Elrick, Tim]

Hi Charlie,

Your student might get some clues from the thesis of Bryan Schaefer @ USC who has some chapters on methodology he used: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll3/id/514559

Cheers,

Tim

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Dr. Tim Elrick

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University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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Hi GeoForAll Urban Science thematic,

1) I have a graduate student interested in this topic. Does anyone know of any good geocrowdsourcing training literature around how one approaches the spatial analysis of tweets or other social media posts?

2) It would be great if we could somehow get operational a communication platform like the one PublicLab.org has where we could have students post research notes [1] that other interested people in our group or outside of the group could monitor. For example, people interested in the above topic or other topics. Any ideas on how we might do that? I'm copying Jeff McKenna because this could be something that would reside on the OSGeo web platform. I think what I am suggesting is a little different than a wiki or a blog... any ideas on how we might implement such an idea?

Cheers,

Charlie

[1] http://publiclab.org/research/

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