Mapping Social Media

In this tutorial we are going to be doing some Data Mining exercice. We are going to be using the Twitter API to Mine data from the twitter app.

Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

For this tutorial you will need:

We are mainly interested in the locations of tweets and we are going to be using the #GlobalSurveyorsDay tweets for this tutorial.