I had heard about that study, Tom. Our objective on this NIH-funded project is to conduct research on what what infectious disease-related studies could be conducted using Twitter data. Plenty of opportunities exist, a few of which (influenza outbreak detection, for example) have already been demonstrated.
Along the way we get to do some computer science, because this is truly "big data", and innovative solutions to operating on it are necessary. --Doug On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: > Doug: > > I'm probably not clear on your objective, but are you folks aware of the > work the Guardian did a couple years back on mapping the riots in London in > real time using Tweets? > See > http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2011/08/august-2011-london-riot-maps.html > > =tom > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net>wrote: > >> One of my projects is funded by NIH, and it sponsored (read: paid for) a >> group of 15 of us software developer types from 10 different organizations >> across the country who are working on the project to get together last week >> in Las Vegas, NV to conduct a two-day hackathon. We split into three >> groups, and my group produced some rough, ugly, but working Python and R >> code. >> >> The Python code conducts keyword searches on archived 1% Twitter API >> data, filtered to only search only those tweets that have valid >> geolocation data. The short piece of R code calls a Google map API and >> plots the data on a Google map in a browser, allowing the user to click on >> the geolocated map points to view the originator's tweet text. >> >> Our next step will be to replace the R code with Python for calling the >> Google map API. >> >> Here, it's ugly, but it's free. Don't say I never gave you anything. >> >> --Doug >> >> -- >> *Doug Roberts >> d...@parrot-farm.net* >> *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> 505-455-7333 - Office >> 505-672-8213 - Mobile* >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM > USA<http://www.analyticjournalism.com/> > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > Twitter: jtjohnson > http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com > ========================================== > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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