metAtlas: Metropolitan Atlas from social media

Work done as Project Assistant, at the MIT Media Lab / Macro Connections Group (guided by prof. César Hidalgo). Work included the download and pre-processing of twitter geo-located data for 50 Metropolitan Areas around the world (7-8 million tweets), the development of a socio-spatial Clustering algorithm for definition of urban areas (based on Spectral Analysis of networks), and the Assistance in the writing of proposals for securing 30K+ US$ in funding for the project (MIT MISTI-Chile Grant).

Twitter Maps

Twitter Maps, one tweet plotted as a point, from 7-8 MM Geo-Located Tweets extracted from the Twitter API in Nov-Dec 2013. Each Map displays data for 1 week within custom areas. Maps not to scale.

Twitter Maps | Twitter Density Maps | Twitter Rythms | Clustering Experiments

istanbul, N° Tweets: 800K

johannesburg, N° Tweets: 100K

jakarta, N° Tweets: 2.5MM

singapore-batam, N° Tweets: 265K

detroit, N° Tweets: 470K

new york-new jersey-philadelphia, N° Tweets: 2MM

manchester-liverpool, N° Tweets: 400K

glasgow-edinburgh, N° Tweets: 250K

new orleans-baton rouge, N° Tweets:

san francisco-bay area, N° Tweets: 290K

kuala lumpur-Malacca st, N° Tweets: 1MM

manila, N° Tweets: 500K

mumbai, N° Tweets: 32K

buenos aires-la plata, N° Tweets: 380K

lower countries, N° Tweets: 570K

toronto-buffalo, N° Tweets: 300K

rhur-rhein, N° Tweets: 30K

osaka-kobe, N° Tweets: 450K

tokio-yokohama, N° Tweets: 2MM

portugal, N° Tweets: 290K

chicago, N° Tweets: 500K

dubai, N° Tweets: 105K

dallas, N° Tweets: 560K

las vegas, N° Tweets: 190K

madrid, N° Tweets: 235K

paris, N° Tweets: 500K

boston, N° Tweets: 190K

mexico city, N° Tweets: 350K

milan-lombardy, N° Tweets: 100K

los angeles, N° Tweets: 500K

vancouver-seattle, N° Tweets: 295K

london, N° Tweets: 500K

sao paulo, N° Tweets: 1.2MM

palestine-israel, N° Tweets: 150K

miami-florida, N° Tweets: 375K