I have done the collection of Twitter data from European metropolises. Currently I'm mining data from US metropolitan areas over 500,000. Theoretical framework of the paper considering twitter activity in Europe focuses on digital social capital, thus electronic capital, or e-capital. Article from US cities lean to idea of the creative cities, which have been in fact conceptualized already way earlier than Florida's Creative class (e.g. Landry & Bianchini (1995). I believe there is still some shortage of mapping exercises for the geography of the creative cities. Especially researched from the angle of creativity in social media. That should be the most up to date space where the creativity is present. Not forgetting the geographical space of the creativity, i. e. creative cities. The first data collected were tweets containing word research. I believed research would represent creativity, i.e. by examining relations of the tweets in hashtagify.me. There's number of other key words coming, so we can rank US cities regarding different key words related to creativity in social media. The final outcome will be re conceptualizing the economic geography related concept of "The creative cities". Regression analyses will tell whether the creativity present in social media affects metropolises economy. Heat maps of different key words related to creativity will give us a series of maps dealing with larger clusters formed from the creative cities. This one table presenting twitter activity in the field of research tells us that Washington D.C. is also the research capital of the United States. The other well-known research clusters seems to lay in Bay Area, The Triangle and East coast. I would also like to share the data of tweets containing word research. The next step for me is to make a heat map of it and find spatial clusters of digitally creative cities. In addition, I collect the rest of the data and do the same kind of rankings and heat maps for other key words as well. I hope you find the data beneficial, too :)
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AuthorJuho Kiuru, geographer living in Helsinki, Finland. |