Using Spatial Data from Social Media

Participants will need to bring their own laptops. You will need a web browser (Chrome or Firefox) and a working installation of QGIS (http://www.qgis.org). You will also find a mouse very useful for working with some of the spatial data.

In this one-day course we will consider how data from different social media platforms could be used for spatial analysis. With social media now generating significant volumes of data it is a great resource for research in a wide range of different social science areas. We will primarily focus on Twitter data explore what spatial elements there are within the data and discuss how best to show and analyse these in a GIS. We will also cover a quick recap on spatial data. For more information please visit: www.cdrc.ac.uk/events/using-spatial-data-from-social-media-london

Some experience of working with spatial data is needed for this course.
No experience of coding is needed for this course, but some experience would be beneficial.

Date: 16 November 2018, 10:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue: University of Liverpool in London campus, 33 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AG United Kingdom, Executive room 1, level 7
Speaker: Dr Nick Bearman (Geospatial Mapping Solutions)
Organising department: Saïd Business School
Organiser: Claudia Seiler (University of Oxford, Said Business School)
Organiser contact email address: claudia.seiler@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://bit.ly/2xyH3LL
Booking email: claudia.seiler@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Cost: £60 – UK registered students; £100 – staff at UK academic institutions & 3rd sector; £300 – all other participants
Audience: Public
Editor: Claudia Seiler