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Where are you, #ISIS?
By: Emily GoldbergData Driven Culture
Trinity College
• Most words in the cloud are countries
• People are more interested in discussing location where events took place than the event
Word cloud findings
• Total of over 100,000 tweets
• Only eight different geo- located tweets
• ISIS is relevant all over the world
Cartodb map findings
• Production of space depends on code
• Location gives space larger meaning
• No locations, no global awareness
Code and space
• Data shows ISIS has a global presence• Location is
the focus of my data
Conclusion
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