Visualization of tweets during Champions League final

http://cartodb.github.io/lisbon-2014/#/4/44.62/10.77/75

by furilo • 12 years ago

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jatorre• 12 years ago

Clearly noone tweets from Germany, or none activate the location

danbruc• 12 years 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-countr...

fizx• 12 years ago

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

pavel_lishin• 12 years ago

I thought this was about League of Legends.

ahsanup• 12 years ago

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

emilsedgh• 12 years 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

askar_yu• 12 years 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.

asdfologist• 12 years ago

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

qnk• 12 years 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/

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

javisantana• 12 years ago

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

https://github.com/cartodb/torque

JonoBB• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

would love to see this for the world cup.

Visualization of tweets during Champions League final

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