GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Health 2.0, Vise, Bilbrough
12 Sep 2018
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Lecture 14 - geographic information systems (gis) social and cultural geographic. Current cultural trends: cirrently, twitter has 313 million monely active users, 500 million tweets sent daily (82% on a phone) Volunteered geographic information: do you know that your tweets, facebook posts, flickr pictures etc. all have geographic tags , this is san example of what we call volunteered geographic information (vgi), aka. Gathering social media data: 800,000 tweets from the gta were collected over a period of 5 weeks (oct. 2 - Nov 6, 2012: filtered by keyword, then manually screened (eg. sick, flu, ill, cough, etc) Geotechnolgy and gis: all of the maps that you have seen have been made with the aid of a geographic. Benefits of geotechnology: 1. 1 billlion hours of travel time per year globally, job market - students educated using geo services can expect 3% higher average wages give years after graduation that those who don"t.
