US Map showing Geotagged Tweets mentioning “Ferguson” on Twitter.
Created by Twitter’s data team and explained in a blog by Simon Rogers, an animated map has been developed that shows the mention of “Ferguson” on Twitter.
Simon Rogers says, “the first week of any news story is the time when data journalism can have the greatest impact. When people care about a story is the time to strike with the facts themselves.”
Those who used mentions of the city “Ferguson” and related keywords can be tracked to monitor the story’s progress across the Midwest, America, and the world.
Twitter creates a map showing how the story of Michael Brown's death spread http://t.co/kYx4Ruh8X3
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMailUS) August 16, 2014
The animated map initially visualizes the Ferguson mentions as tiny blips in the Midwest before becoming an intense series of bright yellow impulses that almost cover the country.
The map was created using CartoDB, which is a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud computing platform that provides GIS and web mapping tools in the browser.
So, what has #datajournalism actually taught us about #Ferguson, one week on
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— Simon Rogers (@smfrogers) August 16, 2014
Simon Rogers is a data journalist, writer, speaker. Author of ‘Facts are Sacred’ published by Faber & Faber, and author of a new range of “infographics for children books” from Candlewick. Rogers is also a data editor at Twitter, San Francisco.
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What data journalism told us about #Ferguson
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