Italian, Russina, Turkish Twitter

Making sense of Big Data : mining Twitter names

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Millions of geo tweets in various languages, discussing anything from ‘hey, I’m here‘ to finance, geopolitics or marketing. How do you make sense of them?

We’ve used name recognition (applied onomastics) to filter information and produce unique maps of the e-Diasporas. Where are the digitally connected Italian, Turkish and Russian today? They may be migrants, tourists, business travellers, student, visiting scientists…

To jump directly to the interactive map, click here : http://cdb.io/1iSeWw2 or read more about our methodology.

Italian, Russina, Turkish Twitter
Italian, Russina, Turkish Twitter

TIP : Filter out layers and zoom in/out.
Below we filtered out the Turkish Twitter layer to visualize where the Russian & Italian tourists go to holiday in Turkey

Russian, Italians in Turkey
Russian, Italians in Turkey

The Italian America :

Italian America
Italian America

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