Category Archive: Tweets

May 24 2012

What to do with a degree in human geography

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 …

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May 21 2012

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-21

“@GeographyCarrie: @HumanGeoMonster used this today with year 9 studying how conflict affects geog…. V.cool!! Thanks for the link ” yay! # Tweet

May 14 2012

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-14

@agdturner @geoblogs @geocollective hello all! #geogchat # @jrsocialmedia good evening Jim, how are you? Business all good? # Please +K my influence in Geography on @klout http://t.co/77XJdFK9 # @janeyb222 Hi! Pop us an email from our website with further detail #geohelp #humangeography # Human Geography Monster http://t.co/ikoNJQrR # #geography # Tweet

May 14 2012

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-14

@agdturner @geoblogs @geocollective hello all! #geogchat # @jrsocialmedia good evening Jim, how are you? Business all good? # Please +K my influence in Geography on @klout http://t.co/77XJdFK9 # @janeyb222 Hi! Pop us an email from our website with further detail #geohelp #humangeography # Human Geography Monster http://t.co/ikoNJQrR # #geography # Tweet

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

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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

Jul 02 2011

The Monster is now on all your…

The Monster is now on all your fav social media! Tweet