Mapping Movement Using Tweets

After playing around with some twitter data for animation purposes (in Time Manager), I’m now looking into movement patterns. Series of successive georeferenced tweets can be connected to get an idea of how people move within a city as well as between cities and continents.

Currently, I’m still working on the basics of collecting relevant data. A first proof of concept can be seen in this map which contains locations of a handful of users in the greater Viennese area:

Each user is represented by a differently colored line.

Updates and code samples will follow.