Sometimes I check Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, as many find themselves doing and…
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Trump tweets from Android are angrier than from iPhone
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Game of Thrones discussions for every episode, visualized
I hear there’s some show called “Game of Thrones” that’s kind of popular…
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Bot automatically generates maps from American Community Survey data
The American Community Survey is an ongoing survey run by the United States…
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Network Effect overwhelms with data
Network Effect by Jonathan Harris and Greg Hochmuth is a gathering of the…
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Death of apps via tweets
Apps peak and die on a regular basis. One day everyone is giving…
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Twitter bot generates biographies via Census data
We usually see Census data in aggregate. It comes in choropleth maps or…
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Swear maps
Linguist Jack Grieve posted a bunch of maps that show swearing geographically, based…
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The Great Grid Map Debate of 2015
There’s been a sudden bump in grid maps lately taking the place of…
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Making better social media maps
Location-based data from social media can be interesting to analyze and map, but…
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How to Download and Use Online Data with Arduino
Before you can do anything with data, you have to get it into the application. Working with an Arduino is no different. Although the process is changes, if you’re used to working with desktop software.
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Make your own detailed tweet maps
Eric Fischer, known around these parts for his detailed dot maps, describes his…
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Breakout detection in R
Say you have time series data and you want to detect significant changes,…
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Talking Ferguson on Twitter and localness
For trending topics, Twitter likes to show an animated map of how a…
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What a few thousand fake followers gets you
There are a lot of fake, spammy accounts on Twitter that come in…
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Happy new year around the world
New Year’s is a worldwide event, but as we know, it doesn’t happen…
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Tracking emoji usage on Twitter
The people I follow on Twitter almost never use emojis, but every now…
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Mapping Twitter demographics
MapBox, along with Gnip and Eric Fischer, mapped 3 billion tweets and a…
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Twitter trend detection algorithm
Stuff happens, and people tweet about it. Something major happens, and a lot…
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The differences between a geek and a nerd
Curious about how people use “geek” and “nerd” to describe themselves and if…
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Geography of tweets
Twitter mapped all the geotagged tweets since 2009. There’s billions of them, so…
