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13 Apr Featured Maps, London, Visualisation | 6 comments

The Twitter Languages of London

The Twitter Languages of London

Last year Eric Fischer produced a great map (see below) visualising the language communities of Twitter. The map, perhaps unsurprisingly, closely matches the geographic extents of the world’s major linguistic groups. On seeing these broad patterns I wondered how well they applied to the international communities living in London. The graphic above shows the spatial ...

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10 Oct Featured Maps, Visualisation | 4 comments

Mapping Academic Tweets

Mapping Academic Tweets

Another day, another Twitter map- this time showing the global distribution of tweets that link to academic journal articles. I am always a bit skeptical of Twitter data (especially with location information) but as an academic seeking to publish in many of the journals that feature in people’s tweets I was prepared to make an ...

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05 Aug Resources | 1 comment

#ffgeo: Follow Friday for all things geographical.

#ffgeo: Follow Friday for all things geographical.

Just for a bit of fun and to help those of us with interests in all things geographical, spatial, GIS, maps and cartographic (I could go on…), I thought I would add “geo” to the usual Follow Friday (#ff) twitter hashtag to create #ffgeo. So if you have particularly enjoyed the geo-related tweets from one ...

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08 Jul Uncategorized | Comments

Snowtweets

Snowtweets

Aside from an interest in surnames, I keep an eye on cold-regions research. I spent a lot of time as an undergraduate studying glaciers and became heavily involved in the Polar Science/ Cold Regions research community. Many of the results from this research are extremely relevant as they inform to a large extent the climate ...

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