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The Geography of Tweets: Reading Tweets with QGIS

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Date: 2015-05-17 22:51:43
Blog: Digital Geography
URL: http://www.digital-geography.com/the-geography-of-tweets-reading-tweets-with-qgis/

Summary:

Anita showed some nice examples of tweets in QGIS in 2012. Since then it seemed to be quiet about the twitter-content in QGIS. Yet tweets can be an interesting source of information. Sometimes they can tell you something about the spatiotemporal dimensions regarding a keyword, the digital heartbeat of a defined region and many more. Yet we need to be careful with the data as it is completely biased. But how to get this data stream into QGIS? The First Insights: Tweets in QGIS As in 2011/2012 the twitter API was easy to fetch with a simple line of codeā€¦ The post The Geography of Tweets: Reading Tweets with QGIS appeared first on Digital Geography.

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