[GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Spatial analysis of social media

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Dimitris and Charlie,

I have no expertise on this subject and so recommend this without confidence, but Maria's PoliCrowd might be at least one starting place:
http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/

And moving that Java app into the web app world (www.WebWorldWind.org) would certainly make it more accessible.

Not sure if this is worth 2-cents or just an IOU. 

-Patrick
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Hi Charlie,

very interesting idea and thanks for sharing.
I have actually started for some time now a work along these lines that I will be happy to share. I am putting a very condensed description because I am off for a trip (to US actually) so my time is very limited and I apologize to that but if you or anybody else find this interesting please let me know.
So we have created a platform that process tweets in real time and tries to identifies important events based on that (like e.g. an earthquake or even a football game). Part of the work was to explore the tweets we collect through some spatial analytics lenses trying to understand for example simple things like the tweets distribution in Greece according to space and time e.g. within a week. This is quite simple but it is a start. I had to leave it there because the project funding was limited.
OK, this is preliminary work but the platform works quite OK. I have not released this yet but the plan is to be of course open source. It is something that needs some more support to become really operational to a more professional level but it is there.

So if of interest please let me know and we can keep the conversation running, I hope I did not confuse everybody!


Best regards,

Dimitris



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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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