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Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contiguous cartograms
- nhoizey 14y agoReally nice, congrats!
- robhawkes 14y agoThanks!
- aviswanathan 14y agoSometimes I wonder if Twitter itself has internal tools to measure/visualize things like this. Kudos, the project looks great!
- robhawkes 14y agoThank you! I've been to Twitter and hadn't noticed it but would love to see it there ;)
- decad 14y agoGreat work, Noticed this says beta does that mean there is a lot more to come?
- robhawkes 14y agoOh yes. We want to see how v1 goes down first but yes, much more planned on top on refining what we already have. Things like visualising hashtags / search terms.
- wreckimnaked 14y agonice work! one minor suggestion: I couldn't find any reference to the timezone used to collect/display the data, therefore I was unable to have any deeper insight from your awesome visualization. Could you make that information clear on the visualization or the info page? ;)
- robhawkes 14y agoWe collect the data in the UK (GMT) but the time given in the visualising is the local time of the user. We have a GMT offset on the homepage but not on the player, we'll fix that for v2. Hopefully that clears it up.
- mtrimpe 14y agoAmazing work! I really love seeing the 'explosions' when some news happens in the Netherlands and Switzerland yesterday. One thing I'm curious about though is if you could make it so that you see the time per time zone. I'm assuming the replay is SF time, but it's hard to figure out when exactly those flash events happened in European countries. All in all, great work.
- decad 14y agoI think it is GMT 0 (Rob is UK based) so it will be a few hours ahead of the time.
- robhawkes 14y agoWe collect the data in the UK (GMT) but the time given in the visualising is the local time of the user. We have a GMT offset on the homepage but not on the player, we'll fix that for v2. Hopefully that clears it up.
- robhawkes 14y agoAnd thanks for the comments! It's definitely fun to watch.
- diziet 14y agoSome comments: Countries are not homogeneous entities, though! Seeing Alaska surge if the east coast is tweeting isn't a as accurate. It would also be nice to have a slider to control time to look at the data from the past.
- robhawkes 14y agoThanks for the comments, we'll bear them in mind for v2!
- eksith 14y agoWho needs acid when when you can trip on JS and Twitter? ;) Really nice work!
- robhawkes 14y agoHaha, exactly. Thanks!
- bruceboughton 14y agoI'm really suprised by Indonesia's bulging size relative to its landmass. It's far larger than other tourist resorts like Thailand. Any ideas?
- ajhai 14y agoCould the tsunami warning be the reason for it? http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/afp/small-tsunami-hits-solomon-islands-after-major-quake-indonesia-on-alert/569896 http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/afp/small-tsunami-hits-solomo...
- Kiro 14y agoAre you saying tweets from Asia must be from tourists?
- bruceboughton 14y agoDon't be so ridiculous. Indonesia is massively distorted, even compared to Japan/Singapore. There is clearly an anomoly in this data, either due to a specific event or a data error. I say this as someone who has just been to Indonesia (Bali) and not see any evidence of Twitter.
- robhawkes 14y agoIf it's a data error, it's on Twitter's part. We trust the geolocation of their data. However, Indonesia is always bulging. It wouldn't need many global tweets to be large in relation to it's area.
- oriste 14y agoAs I said in a previous comment, I've observed this seemingly-out-of-proportion presence of Indonesia on twitter before, since quite a long time. This map confirms those observations. Russia however... ;-)
- gavinballard 14y agoIndonesia does have the fourth largest population of any nation in the world... could that explain it?
- dendory 14y agoNot to rain on this but I prefer tweetping.net from last week, although it seems not to be working for me right now. Similar concept, but showed tweets as tiny lights across the world.
- robhawkes 14y agoTweetping is great too, though very different – much like http://onemilliontweetmap.com http://onemilliontweetmap.com
- oriste 14y agoSeeing Indonesia bulge like that confirms my own observations of the previous years. Nice to see that. What I have difficulty in believing is the sheer size of Russia's volume, that seems a bit out of place. Rob? Otherwise, fantastic job!
- robhawkes 14y agoSeeing the smaller countries bulge is very interest. What is out of place about Russia? It's a big place and needs to make up for the vacuum left by China and India.
- oriste 14y agoGranted it's a big place, but if the size on the map is a representation of the volume of tweets, it appears as if 143Mio Russians have a higher volume than 600Mio Europeans (in more or less the same time zones). I had assumed that with internet penetration for Russia estimated at 60Mio (± same as Germany alone), it would not beat the combined internet users of the EU countries. I could be wrong though, just curious.
- robhawkes 14y agoIn this case, you're likely right but the effect is offset by the lack of tweets and huge vacuum in the areas below Russia. The geometry is preserved as much as possible so the vacuum will pull Russia (which at least has some tweets) down to fill.
- oriste 14y agoAha. So you're saying we can't compare e.g. the tweet volumes of the UK or France with Russia based on the size of the country as depicted on your map? BTW Canada and Greenland seem out of proportion as well. But regardless, I've been hooked on this map since I found out about it this morning. Fascinating.
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- eltaco 14y agoCheck out Tweetpleth if you want more specific tweets http://tweetpleth.herokuapp.com/ http://tweetpleth.herokuapp.com/ like for the superbowl http://i.imgur.com/bzmmJno.png http://i.imgur.com/bzmmJno.png
- robhawkes 14y agoVery nice, we actually considered using choropleth maps !
- oriste 14y agoIt's a pity the size of a country does not represent the absolute volume of tweets emanating from that country. I understand it would distort the map completely, but it would make it so much more interesting to watch. Something like this, but animated in real time: http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=336 http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=336
- edwinvdgraaf 14y agoVery nice work. The trending topics per country would also be informative when shown, but that may be personal.