Economy
The Most and Least Popular London Buildings on Twitter, Mapped in 3D
Visualizing the various digital divides in the city.
Last month, we shared how 3D mapping can produce striking visualizations of New York City’s wealth gap. It's also, it turns out, a neat way to visualize a city’s Twitter activity.
Stephan Hügel and Flora Roumpani, two PhD students at University College London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, created TweetCity, a tool that can capture London-based tweets and project them onto the built environment. This video preview shows the result of mapping nearly over 3,500, or 16 hours worth of tweets.