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18. Just Landed - 36 Hours
6 months ago
I was discussing H1N1 with a bioinformatics friend of mine last weekend, and we ended up talking about ways that epidemiologists model transmission of disease. I wondered how some of the information that is shared voluntarily on social networks might be used to build useful models of various kinds.
I'm also interested in visualizing information that isn't implicitly shared - but instead is inferred or suggested.
This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases 'just landed in...' or 'just arrived in...'. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta's Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.
I'm not entirely sure where this will end up going, but I am reasonably happy with the results so far.
Built with Processing (processing.org)
You can read more about this project on my blog - blog.blprnt.com
I'm also interested in visualizing information that isn't implicitly shared - but instead is inferred or suggested.
This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases 'just landed in...' or 'just arrived in...'. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta's Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.
I'm not entirely sure where this will end up going, but I am reasonably happy with the results so far.
Built with Processing (processing.org)
You can read more about this project on my blog - blog.blprnt.com
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These are all things I would say directly to your awesome face but its not looking like I will see you at all this year. Whah!
There are actually a lot of instances in which the people are returning home - they are just not plotted yet since I haven't decided on a good way to represent them.
I had the flying particles billboarded but I liked the way they looked this way a bit better. I imagine the whole system will change a bit over the next little while as I incorporate new things. The plan is to put some 'contagion' particles on the map and then allow the 'trips' to move these from one place to another.
I wouldn't write off seeing me this year just yet - I might find a way to get down to SF. And, of course, you are always welcome up here in the Northlands. Maybe I turned the map that way so that I could pretend I was looking down on the US??
Re: inverted map. It was something I was thinking about this last week... thats why I brought it up. I was working on an arcball Earth and started to wonder if I should limit the movement so you could not see the Earth inverted. I never actually reached a sound conclusion but decided since the point of the piece was to show data's relationship to a very familiar planet, it wouldnt make sense for my version to allow people to see the data superimposed on an upsidedown crazy planet.
Re:billboarding... I just like being able to see the flying points better from the side view.
Re:contagion!!! Don't forget to include the placebo effect the media is responsible for. I feel sorry for whatever poor saps beeline for the hospital because they think they have H1N1 but actually just has the sniffles but on the way, they are exposed to the nasty on the subway. Sad.
You could search for "http" to find URLs in tweets. A quick inspection shows more than 10 tweets a second with URLs in them.
You could fetch the page for each URL, and send the full-text through MetaCarta's GeoTagger API. The GeoTagger analyzes rich text to find georeferences like "two miles east of Casey Middle School".
By plotting these, you could see what places the twittersphere thinks are hot right now.
Let me know if you try this, I can show you how to filter on geographic feature type.
that way you actually have a vector instead of just a destination? just a thought. love your project so very much!
monitor any keyword -> send @-reply asking to visit a url -> georef by FF, geode, loki, fireagle (i.e. javascript) when the user lands on that page
very clever
I would appreciate your response to my question below this comment.
Can a neophyte with some ancient and rusted programming background, manage to learn processing and be able to do anything useful with it?