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By: CFHE12 Analysis: Summary of Twitter activity JISC CETIS MASHe

CFHE12 Analysis: Summary of Twitter activity JISC CETIS MASHe — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:55:51 +0000

[...] by extracting location recorded in twitter account profile and generating geo-coordinates using recipe here. Locations were extracted for 404 accounts. Co-ordinates were uploaded to GeoCommons and analysed [...]

By: Automagic Creation of a Map of #opened12 Attendees

Automagic Creation of a Map of #opened12 Attendees — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:03:37 +0000

[...] in the form of Tony Hirst (who I knew would know the answer) and Alec Couros. Tony pointed me to a post he had written earlier this year that highlighted the Google doc function =ImportData. By using that function and concatenating the [...]

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:14:27 +0000

@tom I seem to remember seeing something in a slightly different context about the new long form Twitter IDs causing problems.. I seem to remember there was some way of getting IDs back as strings rather than numerics for cases where long numbers couldn’t be handled…? This maybe? https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/twitter-api-announce/ccJeIN3T4_A

By: Tom Szekeres (@tomszekeres)

Tom Szekeres (@tomszekeres) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:55:44 +0000

Bizarrely, when I’ve used Twitter Search, Google Refine seems to round up both id and str_id e.g. “166937349609364481″ becomes 166937359609364480, whether quoted or unquoted – does this happen for you? Seems to be related to the length of the string (when it’s over 16 characters long).

By: OER Visualisation Project: Maps, Maps, Maps, Maps [day 20] – MASHe

OER Visualisation Project: Maps, Maps, Maps, Maps [day 20] – MASHe — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:02:26 +0000

[...] geo data for the 57 unresolved Phase 1 & 2 projects was a 3 stage process:Use the Google Maps hack recently rediscovered by Tony Hirst to get co-ordinates from a search. You can see the remnants of this here in cell U56 (Google [...]