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Visualization of tweets during Champions League final

75 points by furilo 12y ago

jatorre 12y ago
Clearly noone tweets from Germany, or none activate the location
- danbruc 12y ago
  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-country-has-most-active-twitter-population-1474852 http://www.ibtimes.com/twitter-usage-statistics-which-countr...
  - fizx 12y ago
    If you think about it, there's not a lot you can say in German in 140 characters.
    - yaph 12y ago
      I'm aware that German translations of English sentences are about 30% longer, but by that logic Twitter should only be popular in countries with logographic or ideographic writing systems like Twitter is in Japan. jatorre's assumption that location is deactivated seems to be an appropriate explanation.
pavel_lishin 12y ago
I thought this was about League of Legends.
ahsanup 12y ago
Awesome to see Turkey showing up big on this map, had no clue that the sport was so popular there.
- emilsedgh 12y 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arda_Turan
  - askar_yu 12y 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.
    - pedrosorio 12y ago
      It seems odd that a country of that size with a huge love for the sport, misses so many of the final stages of the World Cup / European championship.
      - petepete 12y ago
        Yeah, but they did finish third at the 2002 World Cup and third at Euro 2008; not bad at all.
      - lazyant 12y ago
        "Soccernomics" author predicted Turkey becoming much better at soccer competitions for those and other reasons, it hasn't materialized yet though.
asdfologist 12y ago
Very cool. Does this use an open source map library?
- qnk 12y 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/ http://cartodb.com/ [2] https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb.js https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb.js
  - javisantana 12y ago
    Just to complete your comment, the animation layer is done with torque.js: https://github.com/cartodb/torque https://github.com/cartodb/torque
JonoBB 12y 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).
zameericle 12y ago
would love to see this for the world cup.

75 points by furilo 12y ago

jatorre 12y ago

Clearly noone tweets from Germany, or none activate the location

danbruc 12y ago
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-country-has-most-active-twitter-population-1474852 http://www.ibtimes.com/twitter-usage-statistics-which-countr...
- fizx 12y ago
  If you think about it, there's not a lot you can say in German in 140 characters.
  - yaph 12y ago
    I'm aware that German translations of English sentences are about 30% longer, but by that logic Twitter should only be popular in countries with logographic or ideographic writing systems like Twitter is in Japan. jatorre's assumption that location is deactivated seems to be an appropriate explanation.

pavel_lishin 12y ago

I thought this was about League of Legends.

ahsanup 12y ago

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

emilsedgh 12y 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arda_Turan
- askar_yu 12y 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.
  - pedrosorio 12y ago
    It seems odd that a country of that size with a huge love for the sport, misses so many of the final stages of the World Cup / European championship.
    - petepete 12y ago
      Yeah, but they did finish third at the 2002 World Cup and third at Euro 2008; not bad at all.
    - lazyant 12y ago
      "Soccernomics" author predicted Turkey becoming much better at soccer competitions for those and other reasons, it hasn't materialized yet though.

asdfologist 12y ago

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

qnk 12y 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/ http://cartodb.com/ [2] https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb.js https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb.js
- javisantana 12y ago
  Just to complete your comment, the animation layer is done with torque.js: https://github.com/cartodb/torque https://github.com/cartodb/torque

JonoBB 12y 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).

zameericle 12y ago

would love to see this for the world cup.