19 Apr 2009 Showcases , ,

Heatmap of Tweets from the earthquake in L’Aquila

I’ve created a heatmap visualization of 1500 Tweets with the keyword “earthquake” around the time of the terrible earthquake that happened in L’Aquila, Italy. Again I’ve used the ModestMaps library for the mapping. Hat tip to Chris from UUorld for his support on the coding side of life.

Update: The data is now enlarged with a search query for the word “terremoto” to approximately 3000 Tweets.

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  • http://www.vincos.it/ vincos

    Great work ! It could be interesting to add the Italian word for “earthquake” that is”terremoto” and see the results.

    • http://www.artillery.ch/ Wiederkehr

      Thanks for the suggestion – seems obvious that the people mostly involved would rather tweet in italien. The map will soon be updated.

  • http://www.vincos.it vincos

    Great work ! It could be interesting to add the Italian word for “earthquake” that is”terremoto” and see the results.

    • http://artillery.ch Benjamin Wiederkehr

      Thanks for the suggestion – seems obvious that the people mostly involved would rather tweet in italien. The map will soon be updated.

  • http://www.artillery.ch/ Wiederkehr

    The XMl is now updated with a search for the keyword “terremoto”.

  • http://artillery.ch Benjamin Wiederkehr

    The XMl is now updated with a search for the keyword “terremoto”.

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