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Mapping Hidden Twitter Data For Epidemiology
jamie found this visualization of air travel, which might be usable in some sort of proxy for the spread of flu virus (to choose a random application). Jer Thorp, an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada (and a former geneticist), searched Twitter for the phrase "Just landed in" and obtained lat/lon coordinates for both the indicated airport and the Twitter user's home location, as recorded in their Twitter profile. He then produced videos of multi-hour stretches of air travel that had been latent in the Twitter information stream.
jail.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
This looks less like a visualization of air travel and more like what will happen when Skynet goes online, cracks the safety measures on our nuclear arsenal, and begins methodically annihilating the human race.
Of course, those of us with access to the internet will have our impending death announced to us in 140 characters or fewer.
For Fun! -- Signed Mrs Tables
Who would have thought these self absorbed narcissists actually could serve a useful purpose in spite of themselves.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
You certainly seem unduly concerned about privacy. Perhaps you've got something to hide? Would you like to speak to one of our friendly FBI agents? [Modal dialog box has only "OK" option.]
Oh fun. Everybody with a Twitter account, use the phrase "bleeding from my anus" in the next 10 minutes and see if you can't trigger a CDC Ebola alert.
Felt the earth move tonight. It was awesome, I am so glad I hooked up with Janet. --- Oh yeah, another earthquake detected.
who prays for Satan? Who in 18 centuries has had the humanity to pray for the 1 sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain
I know how I can bring their system down: "I've just landed in N/0" Good luck mapping your division by zero!
Obviously the location of the island. Now that we've discovered it, they're going to have to move it again.
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Is a way to graphically map what everybody ate for lunch. Since lunch data is about the maximum density of useful information that can be gathered by a collective of narcissists. There's valuable sandwich-related data mining to be had here. If we cross correlate it with people who say "NOM NOM NOM", we may just have found an audience dumb enough to sell *anything*.
If I were talking about your sister it would be "I just landed a WHALE!"
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Doesn't the latest version of swine flu also have bird flu DNA? Obviously it's a serious problem for those who tweet.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.