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nevinera
on May 27, 2014
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Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists
Their geo-data is utter crap. The vast majority of it is based on 'profile location', which means that there are almost a million people tweeting from the
exact center
of Atlanta. It's a crowded spot, must be a Starbucks there or something.
Nicholas_C
on May 27, 2014
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Just find those mass locations and remove them from the data set.
nevinera
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You end up with about 0.01% of tweets having locations after that. It's basically just iphone users.
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