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Geotagging
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Twitter Turns Geotagged Tweets Into Art
The Verge on Twitter's visualization of geotagged tweet density as art — heat maps of global and city-scale tweet volume rendered as luminous data paintings. An early high-profile example of data visualization as an aesthetic object, not just an analytical tool.
Correlations with Tweet Density
Eric Fischer's Flickr set showing correlations between tweet density and other geographic variables across cities. Part of Fischer's influential 'Geotaggers' World Atlas' series exploring what social media geotag data reveals about urban activity and inequality.