What to do with a degree in human geography Your analytical skills are highly marketable, but further study is required for many related careers Once lampooned as the last academic domain of the workshy and the unimaginative, geography has experienced a sharp revival of its street credentials as environmentalism has entered the mainstream. Following another …
Category Archive: Tweets
May 21 2012
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May 14 2012
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May 14 2012
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-14
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May 13 2012
The Geography of Social Media Threats
The geography of social media is forever shifting. However, the tasty infographic shows the geography of threats: Tweet
May 08 2012
Article: Map of 10,000 Tweets Shows New York City at Work: geotag example
A great example of geotagging in action here. Eric Fischer has mapped the geotags from Twitter to show New York’s social media backbone: http://mashable.com/2012/01/27/nyc-geotagged-tweets/ (Sent from Flipboard) Tweet
Jul 23 2011
Define: Human Geography
A definition of Human Geography: “That part of the discipline of geography concerned with the spatial differentiation and organisation of human activity and its interrelationships with the physical environment” (Johnston, 2001, p:353) This definition of human geography is taken from Ron Johnston’s detailed explanation in ‘The Dictionary of Human Geography “ See it here Tweet
Jul 10 2011
Mapping Twitter Moods
Research from Harvard University titled ‘Pulse of the Nation: U.S. Mood Throughout the Day inferred from Twitter‘ has created a fascinating model using ‘happy and sad tweets’. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, maps from Wikimedia Commons, user locations inferred using the Google Maps API; all displayed perfectly using a PostGIS cartograms. Check out the video: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujcrJZRSGkg&feature=player_embedded] Tweet

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