Activity Map with Social Data

Sanghyun Son
data — space
Published in
3 min readNov 5, 2017

activity map with social data

20171002 23:59~20171003 23:59

: real-time remapping activities map for tourist with twitter

through this map, travelers can be guided in real time by communicating various situations around and guiding the best places they really want. this is a real-time communication map that each person creates, and this is an open source map in which one can make his own route.

background : Twitter (Social network) has changed our lives

there isn’t a shadow of a doubt Twitter has changed the lives of many in the 10 years it’s been running — for better and worse. helped people get hired, changed the way we consume news, make random people internet famous. Brought the rise of ‘hashtag activism’ which has a important role to make headlines worldwide.

process 1 : datamining & selection in python for twitter data

search # manhattan via twitter keyword search as bwlow. determine the number of max. tweets, the duration of the search, and get json data file.

process 2 : json file cleaning & reading in excel 2016

use excel data query (data query> text), reading geolocation and separate location data (longitude, latitude) and tweet headers by lines and export to csv data format.

process 3 : data visualazation in slippymapper

use the slippy-mapper to location data mapping on a map, create a larger marker when data is collected, and show interactively the detail tweeting header by placing the mouse near around the location on the map.

process 4 : interactive realtime activity map with social data

the result is a real-time map. this activity map is updated in real time. if the marker is large, it will be where many events occur and if you take the cursor nearby location of map, you can see the detail contents of the tweets.

process 5 : final output

interactive activity map with social data

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