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Twitter Data Use of the Day: Mapping the Languages of New York City
5 percent of Tweets out of the city are in a language other than English.
Here at Atlantic Cities, we write fairly often about folks using tweets to gauge the mood of a place. But Fast.co brings us something a little different. As they explain it:
Researchers turned 8.5 million geo-located tweets into an interactive Twitter NYC map, sorting languages with Google Translate. Five percent of tweets were in languages other than English.