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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