Visualization of tweets during Champions League final (opens in new tab)

(cartodb.github.io)

75 pointsfurilo11y ago16 comments

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Clearly noone tweets from Germany, or none activate the location

That is probably because Twitter is not really popular in Germany. Looking at the numbers [1] I am still surprised because I would have expected something even lower not knowing a single active Twitter user personally.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/twitter-usage-statistics-which-countr...

fizx11y ago

If you think about it, there's not a lot you can say in German in 140 characters.

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JonoBB11y ago

Love that we see some tweets from some pretty remote places in Africa - Botwana, Zambia and Malawi. Mobile phones have some pretty big penetration there, but internet connection is still not too strong (texting is far bigger).

asdfologist11y ago

Very cool. Does this use an open source map library?

qnk11y ago

CartoDB[1] allows you to put your data on top of rich base layers. Use Mapbox or any other basemap provider. You can even create maps without a background.

Their Javascript library code is on Github[2], and they encourage people to collaborate. But it doesn't seem to have a license, I couldn't find one in the repo.

[1] http://cartodb.com/

[2] https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb.js

javisantana11y ago

Just to complete your comment, the animation layer is done with torque.js:

https://github.com/cartodb/torque

zameericle11y ago

would love to see this for the world cup.

ahsanup11y ago

Awesome to see Turkey showing up big on this map, had no clue that the sport was so popular there.

emilsedgh11y ago

That might be due to the fact that one of the most effective players of Atletico Madrid, Arda Turan [0], is Turkish.

Although he was injured and missed the match.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arda_Turan

askar_yu11y ago

might also be due to the fact that Turks are simply - really mad about soccer :)! I lived couple years in Istanbul, and was amazed by how Turks are obsessed with soccer overall.

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pavel_lishin11y ago

I thought this was about League of Legends.

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jatorre11y ago

Clearly noone tweets from Germany, or none activate the location

danbruc11y ago

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/twitter-usage-statistics-which-countr...

fizx11y ago

If you think about it, there's not a lot you can say in German in 140 characters.

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JonoBB11y ago

asdfologist11y ago

Very cool. Does this use an open source map library?

qnk11y ago

CartoDB[1] allows you to put your data on top of rich base layers. Use Mapbox or any other basemap provider. You can even create maps without a background.

Their Javascript library code is on Github[2], and they encourage people to collaborate. But it doesn't seem to have a license, I couldn't find one in the repo.

[1] http://cartodb.com/

[2] https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb.js

javisantana11y ago

Just to complete your comment, the animation layer is done with torque.js:

https://github.com/cartodb/torque

zameericle11y ago

would love to see this for the world cup.

ahsanup11y ago

Awesome to see Turkey showing up big on this map, had no clue that the sport was so popular there.

emilsedgh11y ago

That might be due to the fact that one of the most effective players of Atletico Madrid, Arda Turan [0], is Turkish.

Although he was injured and missed the match.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arda_Turan

askar_yu11y ago

might also be due to the fact that Turks are simply - really mad about soccer :)! I lived couple years in Istanbul, and was amazed by how Turks are obsessed with soccer overall.

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pavel_lishin11y ago

I thought this was about League of Legends.

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