[GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Spatial analysis of social media

Wed Sep 30 07:12:08 PDT 2015

Thanks Dimitris and Sven for your responses.

Jeff:

I haven't kept up with the "Is OSGeo relevant" email thread, but the
hosting of the OSGeo wiki and other web-functions has always been a big
benefit. Without OSGeo's web infrastructure global collective action would
not be happening.

Is it possible to have OSGeo host something that provides other
collaboration online functions? I'm not sure what this looks like. The
group I am also working with, PublicLab.org, has this very interesting open
access "research notes" structure and they are now working on better ways
of searching those posts. But I can envision this for various GeoForAll
thematic groups or subgroups, like the social media geocrowdsourcing group.

One proprietary option is BaseCamp. But that is a 'login' type system
rather than an open access system.

Is there a role for OSGeo here in supporting some kind of collaboration
system that goes beyond wikis and email?

Cheers,
Charlie

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Sven Schade <sven.schade at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
wrote:

> Hi Carlie, all,
>
> Some free and open tools and training material on this would be great to
> have...
>
> We did several experiments on this over the last years (see one poster with
> that might give a few ideas and a more detailed paper attached). In order
> to
> facilitate these works and move into a wider more structured toolset, a
> colleague designed and partially developed a framework to connect existing
> libraries (mainly via python). The result is a quite techy and software
> engineering piece, that was unfortunately somewhat abandon after he left
> our
> group. If you are interested, I would be happy to get this back to life and
> see if it might be of value as a baseline and initial content. Just let me
> know!!
>
> Best,
> Sven
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geoforall-urbanscience-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:geoforall-urbanscience-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Dimitris Kotzinos
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 8:00 PM
> To: geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org; Charles Schweik
> Cc: Jeff McKenna; Salma El Idrissi
> Subject: [GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Spatial analysis of social media
>
> 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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> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:26:02 -0400
> From: Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>
> To: geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>,       Salma El Idrissi
>         <selidrissi at umass.edu>
> Subject: [GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Spatial analysis of social media
>         (e.g.,  tweets)
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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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>
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> Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration
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Charlie Schweik

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Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

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Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/

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