Mapping Hidden Twitter Data For Epidemiology 75
jamie found this visualization of air travel, which might be usable in some sort of proxy for the spread of flu virus (to choose a random application). Jer Thorp, an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada (and a former geneticist), searched Twitter for the phrase "Just landed in" and obtained lat/lon coordinates for both the indicated airport and the Twitter user's home location, as recorded in their Twitter profile. He then produced videos of multi-hour stretches of air travel that had been latent in the Twitter information stream.
Just landed in... (Score:5, Funny)
What this looks like (Score:3, Funny)
Of course, those of us with access to the internet will have our impending death announced to us in 140 characters or fewer [twitter.com].
Just landed in'); DROP TABLE Location;-- (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just landed in... (Score:5, Funny)
The Hudson River.
Self absorbed twits (Score:5, Funny)
Who would have thought these self absorbed narcissists actually could serve a useful purpose in spite of themselves.
Re:Talk about serving the right ads to the right p (Score:1, Funny)
You certainly seem unduly concerned about privacy. Perhaps you've got something to hide? Would you like to speak to one of our friendly FBI agents? [Modal dialog box has only "OK" option.]
Can be abused? I hope so (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Other scientific uses for Twitter (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can be abused? I hope so (Score:4, Funny)
This is easy to defeat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Long commute (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously the location of the island. Now that we've discovered it, they're going to have to move it again.
What Twitter really needs... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nothing to do with the virus? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Also according to twitter... (Score:4, Funny)
Doesn't the latest version of swine flu also have bird flu DNA? Obviously it's a serious problem for those who tweet.