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Time to Check the Tweets: Harnessing Twitter as a Location-indexed Source of Big Geodata

Vatev, Kiril M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366301162

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2013, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Geography.
Twitter, a popular online social network based on the microblogging format, is an important and significant source of both locational and archival data. It lends to a wide range of topics, from predicting the results of political elections, analysis of natural disasters, and tracking of disease epidemics, to studying political movements and protests, notably in cases of protest organization in Moldova and Iran, and recent events in the Arab Spring. However, many obstacles and barriers to entry are posed by Twitter’s system. Twitter has two main ways of obtaining data with different API requirements, and both returning different formats of data. System-wide authentication further complicates the data collection process. This research is based in creating an open-source software package to overcome the difficulties and barriers to obtaining a Twitter dataset, for both programming aficionados and those only interested in the data. The goals of the software are to ease the collection, storage, and future access to those interesting and important datasets. The resulting software package provides ways to drill down into the data through advanced queries not available from Twitter, and retains the data for extended analysis and reference over time. The software provides a friendly user interface, as well as plug-in capabilities for programmers.
Karl Ahlqvist (Advisor)
Ningchuan Xiao (Committee Member)
54 p.
Geography
Twitter; social networks; software; PointBank; open source; geodata; geocoding; geography

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  • Vatev, K. M. (2013). Time to Check the Tweets: Harnessing Twitter as a Location-indexed Source of Big Geodata [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366301162

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vatev, Kiril. Time to Check the Tweets: Harnessing Twitter as a Location-indexed Source of Big Geodata. 2013. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366301162.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vatev, Kiril. "Time to Check the Tweets: Harnessing Twitter as a Location-indexed Source of Big Geodata." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366301162

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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