Looking At The World Through Twitter Data

Re:Looking At The World Through Twitter Data by joejohnson on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @08:00PM (#3946426)

But, this is because non-English tweets that we have discarded are much more frequent during the night in our time zone, and they often don’t contain the word ‘a’ as often as English tweets do.

This doesn't make sense; are they only discarding the non-English tweets during certains times?

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Re:Looking At The World Through Twitter Data by arashdelijani on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @03:01AM (#3947383)

We just mean that there's more tweeting going on in non-English speaking countries when it's night-time here.

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Re:Looking At The World Through Twitter Data by tmostak on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @08:06AM (#3948127)

Why don't you offer an option to normalize against the number of English-speaking tweets (or any other language you can pick out) over a given hour. You could build your own classifier or use something like Apache Tika. Regardless, really really nice work. The graph is beautiful and highly functional. Did you guys write the graph lib yourselves?

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