[GeoForAll-UrbanScience] Subject: Spatial analysis of social media

Mon Oct 5 18:03:15 PDT 2015

Hi Charlie & Dimitris,

I’ve only just joined the urban science mailing list, but a colleague forwarded me your exchange below, so apologies if I’m behind on posts.

I work at the SMART OSGeo Lab, University of Wollongong, Australia. We’ve recently developed an open source framework for mapping geospatial social media interactions: http://cognicity.info

Current focus is on Twitter data, and the platform was used last year by the Jakarta Emergency Management Agency to crowd-source flood disaster reports for real-time response. It would be great to build an open geo community around this if other people are interested. The Federal Disaster Agency of Indonesia will be using the platform this year, and I’m hoping my students will start contributing to analysis side of the platform this year.

Best,

Tomas

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From: Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at gmail.com<mailto:kotzino at gmail.com>>
Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:00 AM
Subject: [GeoForAll-UrbanScience]  Spatial analysis of social media
To: geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:geoforall-urbanscience at lists.osgeo.org>, Charles Schweik
<cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>>
Cc: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com<mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>, Salma El Idrissi
<selidrissi at umass.edu<mailto:selidrissi at umass.edu>>

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<mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu>>
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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<http://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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Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

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

Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012)
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