Plotting spatial updates shared via Twitter during the recent Glastonbury festival
At the end of June, the Glastonbury festival took place. As more people carry smart devices, from phones to wearable technology, the number of digital updates shared with embedded location information increases. Whilst there were over 600,000 tweets containing the word ‘Glastonbury’ during the festival, just 3,500 tweets were posted with coordinates that placed them at the festival.
Plotted as a heat map, you can see the most intense locations for updates are around the main stages. Looks like the local pub was quite popular too…
But more fun than a static heat map is to animate it enabling you to pause, zoom and switch between satellite and roadmap views. Click the button below to view the animation online. It is hosted on Microsoft Azure. WordPress doesn’t allow such fun here.
Hat tips and thanks to the following for samples to work from:
Next steps include tinkering with text analytics… watch this space 🙂
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