The locals and tourists map scales up a beautiful earlier project from Fischer. You could kill a few

Our stuff often says a lot about us, whether we own a hybrid car or a station wagon, a MacBook Pro or an ancient desktop. And this is no less true of our smart phones, sold on a sharply divided market between iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries.
Among other things, cell phone brands say something about socio-economics it takes a lot of money to buy a new iPhone 5 (and even more money to keep up with the latest best hotels in las vegas models that come out faster than plan upgrades do). Consider, then, this map of Washington, D.C., which uses geolocated best hotels in las vegas tweets, and the cell phone metadata attached to them, to illustrate who in town is using iPhones (red dots) and who s using Androids best hotels in las vegas (green dots):
That picture comes from a new series of navigable maps visualizing some three billion global, geotagged tweets sent since September of 2011, developed by Gnip , MapBox and dataviz guru Eric Fischer .* They ve converted all of that data from the Twitter best hotels in las vegas firehose (this is just a small fraction of all tweets, most of which have no geolocation data) into a series of maps illustrating worldwide patterns in language and device use, as well as between people who appear to be tourists and locals in any given city.
The locals and tourists map scales up a beautiful earlier project from Fischer. You could kill a few hours playing with all of these tools , built on the same dataset. But we particularly liked looking at the geography of smart phone devices. As in Washington, above, iPhones are often more prominent best hotels in las vegas in upper-income parts of cities (and central business districts), while Androids appear to be the dominant device in lower-income areas.
These maps are also a blank canvas with nothing on them other than tweets. To the extent that you can easily make out the Washington Beltway above, or plenty of other roadway networks throughout the rest of these maps, that means people are tweeting while driving (or, preferably, sitting in the passenger seat).
Emily Badger is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard , GOOD , The Christian Science Monitor , and The New York Times . She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
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