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Visualization of tweets during Champions League final

cartodb.github.io

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Clearly noone tweets from Germany, or none activate the location

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-countr...

If you think about it, there's not a lot you can say in German in 140 characters.

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.

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).

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

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/

[2] https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb.js

Just to complete your comment, the animation layer is done with torque.js:

https://github.com/cartodb/torque

would love to see this for the world cup.

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

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

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.

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.

Yeah, but they did finish third at the 2002 World Cup and third at Euro 2008; not bad at all.

"Soccernomics" author predicted Turkey becoming much better at soccer competitions for those and other reasons, it hasn't materialized yet though.

I thought this was about League of Legends.

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