Lab 2 – Ian Moritz – Collecting #syra – Organizing Data
Initially, I would like to believe most tweets would come from the West and Eastern Coasts of the United States, and maybe the middle-East, because these are the locations of the main media outlets discussing the issues in the world. This topic, along with other associated topics of the members in my group (#muslimban, #ISIS), have frequented the news for quite some time. The main debate has stemmed from media coverage because the problem is purely political, there are many views on what is happening. Judging by the map, the coordinates would be about 40o, -65o. My hometown, Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania would be at the 40o, -70o mark.
15/65,535=0.000228
This means there was less than 1% of tweets with geolocations attached to them. This is actually ridiculously low a problem of such a scalable proportion. I really would have thought the contrary to this, seeings as this issues is frequently discussed all over the world. Because of this, it does not really make for a great mapping of the data—the geolocations availbale is quite insignificant compared to the number of tweets and therefore I determine that as small data, but data nonetheless.
I have to say that the data I have, the mappable divided by of the number of tweets yields an insignificant number and therefore does not properly map the #syria tweet data. There are too many unnmapable tweets, yet the mappable one’s do supply data I just believe it does not tell us much about who is tweeting on this topic.
Ian,
It seems that you had the similar issue to my lab of having very few geolocations relative to the high number of tweets that you were able to collect. It definitely makes it difficult to draw any conclusions about your hashtag and hashtag topic when there is so little to work with. Seeing as you, Nell and myself all had a very small proportion of mappable tweets, it may be something to do with our related topics in general. It seems you may have had some difficulties working the lab out, as many of us did. I think advice we should both take moving forward would be to try to work through the lab and address issues we’re having with it in class. I was definitely unable to work out some of the questions when I tried to work on the lab after the class on my own. Overall, despite some of the difficulties that many of us had, I think you made some good points in here.
Ian,
I think it’s interesting that you too thought that most of your tweets would come from the Middle East as our topics are most prominent in these areas. I also find it interesting that all three of us had a plethora of tweets but only a small amount of geolocations attached to them. Overall I can’t make many conclusions about your data and how it relates to mine as some of your maps are missing.