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Analyzing Social Media Data in Python Chapter4

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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Analyzing Social Media Data in Python Chapter4

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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Maps and Twitter data

Alex Hanna
Computational Social Scientist
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Why maps?
Geographical scope
Participants or observers?
Differentiating tweets
For or against?
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How Twitter gets location data


Location is device-dependent
In practice, aggregate geographical to
county, state-level
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Beware selection biases!


Warning: only 1-3% of Twitter data have geographical data
Limits the generalizability of inference
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Types of Geographical Data available in Twitter


Twitter text (most imprecise)
User location
Bounding boxes
Coordinates and points (most precise)
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Let's practice!
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Geographical Data in
Twitter JSON

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Computational Social Scientist
DataCamp Analyzing Social Media Data in Python

Locations in Twitter text


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

Bay Area
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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',
...}
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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
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coordinates JSON
> print(tweet['coordinates'])

{'type': 'Point',
'coordinates': [-72.2833, 21.7833]}
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Let's practice!
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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
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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')
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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)
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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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Let's practice!
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Congratulations!

Alex Hanna
Computational Social Scientist

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