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Monday, January 17, 2022

All Close The Mapbox

This calendar week MapBox released a serial of point map visualisations of Twitter data. The maps explore every geotagged Tweet since September 2011 "revealing demographic, cultural, together with social patterns downwards to metropolis marking detail, across the entire world."


My personal favorite visualisation is Mobile Devices, a point map displaying the build of scream used when people purpose an official Twitter application.

The map reveals a actually interesting designing across American cities that seems to advise that the iPhone is to a greater extent than pop inward higher socio-economic neighborhoods, acre Android phones predominate inward areas amongst lower socio-economic residents. In draw of piece of occupation concern neighborhoods the Blackberry seems to move the device of choice.  

Across the balance of the basis in that location doesn't look to move such a carve upwardly inward the economical marking of Apple together with Android device owners, acre the Blackberry seems to move pop inward draw of piece of occupation concern areas across the globe.


The Locals together with Tourists map highlight areas of cities pop amongst locals together with places where tourists visit. The map shows the locations of Tweets sent yesteryear locals (those who postal service inward ane metropolis for ane consecutive month) together with tourists (whose tweets are centered inward or together with therefore other city).

This map provides a fascinating insight into locations that are pop amongst tourists. For example, inward this screenshot (above) of my neighborhood inward London you lot tin clearly build out the 2012 London Olympics stadium.


Languages of Twitter is a map that displays where dissimilar languages are used inward Tweets. Different languages convey been given a distinct color on the map. One obvious purpose for this map is to visualise areas amongst large immigrant communities.