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    This document discusses analyzing social media data from Twitter using Python. It explains why maps are useful for visualizing geographical data from tweets. It describes the different types of location data available in Twitter posts, including text, user-defined locations, bounding boxes, and coordinates. It discusses selecting biases when only a small percentage of tweets contain geographical metadata. Finally, it demonstrates how to plot Twitter data on maps using the Basemap library in Python.

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    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

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    Maps and Twitter data

    Alex Hanna
    Computational Social Scientist
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    Why maps?
    Geographical scope
    Participants or observers?
    Differentiating tweets
    For or against?
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    How Twitter gets location data


    Location is device-dependent
    In practice, aggregate geographical to
    county, state-level
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    Beware selection biases!


    Warning: only 1-3% of Twitter data have geographical data
    Limits the generalizability of inference
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    Types of Geographical Data available in Twitter


    Twitter text (most imprecise)
    User location
    Bounding boxes
    Coordinates and points (most precise)
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA IN PYTHON

    Let's practice!
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA IN PYTHON

    Geographical Data in
    Twitter JSON

    Alex Hanna
    Computational Social Scientist
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    Locations in Twitter text


    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    User-defined location
    > print(tweet['user']['location'])

    Bay Area
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    place JSON
    > print(tweet['place'])

    {'attributes': {},
    'bounding_box': {'coordinates':
    [[[-80.47611, 37.185195],
    [-80.47611, 37.273387],
    [-80.381618, 37.273387],
    [-80.381618, 37.185195]]],
    'type': 'Polygon'},
    'country': 'United States',
    'country_code': 'US',
    'full_name': 'Blacksburg, VA',
    'name': 'Blacksburg',
    'place_type': 'city',
    ...}
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    Calculating the centroid


    coordinates = [
    [-80.47611, 37.185195],
    [-80.47611, 37.273387],
    [-80.381618, 37.273387],
    [-80.381618, 37.185195]]

    longs = np.unique( [x[0] for x


    in coordinates] )
    lats = np.unique( [x[1] for x
    in coordinates] )

    central_long = np.sum(longs) / 2
    central_lat = np.sum(lats) / 2
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    coordinates JSON
    > print(tweet['coordinates'])

    {'type': 'Point',
    'coordinates': [-72.2833, 21.7833]}
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    ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA IN PYTHON

    Let's practice!
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA IN PYTHON

    Creating Twitter maps

    Alex Hanna
    Computational Social Scientist
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    Introducing Basemap
    Library for plotting two-dimensional
    maps
    Built on top of matplotlib
    Converts coordinates into map
    projections
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    Beginning with Basemap


    from mpl_toolkits.basemap
    import Basemap

    m = Basemap(projection='merc',
    llcrnrlat = -35.62,
    llcrnrlon = -17.29,
    urcrnrlat = 37.73,
    urcrnrlon = 51.39)

    m.fillcontinents(color='white')
    m.drawcoastlines(color='gray')
    m.drawcountries(color='gray')
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    Plotting points
    africa = pd.read_csv('africa.csv')
    longs = africa['CapitalLongtiude']
    lats = africa['CapitalLatitude']

    m = Basemap(...)

    m.fillcontinents(color='white',
    zorder = 0)
    m.drawcoastlines(color='gray')
    m.drawcountries(color='gray')

    m.scatter(longs.values,
    lats.values,
    latlon = True,
    alpha = 0.7)
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    Using color
    africa = pd.read_csv('africa.csv')
    longs = africa['CapitalLongtiude']
    lats = africa['CapitalLatitude']
    arabic = africa['Arabic']

    m = Basemap(...)
    m.fillcontinents(color='white',
    zorder = 0)
    m.drawcoastlines(color='gray')
    m.drawcountries(color='gray')

    m.scatter(longs.values,
    lats.values,
    latlon = True,
    c = arabic.values,
    cmap = 'Paired',
    alpha = 1)
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    ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA IN PYTHON

    Let's practice!
    DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

    ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA IN PYTHON

    Congratulations!

    Alex Hanna
    Computational Social Scientist

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