Oil Spill vs. Arizona II: Location Analysis of Tweets
May 10, 2010 by
The Arizona Immigration Law and the Gulf Oil Spill have been among the biggest news stories this month. We’re tracking tweets on an ongoing basis for both stories. We had a suggestion to map these Tweets by location (thanks to @hornOKplease!). Because the stories have a regional focus and national attention, it seemed like the [...]
Tweet Location Normalization in RowFeeder Enterprise
May 7, 2010 by
Damon just posted a quick walk-through of RowFeeder Enterprise and the new Geo-Normalization feature. Even if tweets are not geo-tagged (less than 1% are on a recent check), this feature tries to determine as much information as possible from a user’s location. This includes city, state/region, metro information and latitude/longitude for each Tweet. All location data [...]