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Tweet volumes in American cities

This dataset enumerates the number of geocoded tweets captured in geographic rectangular bounding boxes around the metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) defined for 49 American cities, during a four-week period in 2012 (between April and June), through the Twitter Streaming API.

More information on MSA definitions: https://www.census.gov/population/metro/

Social Sciences
human dynamics; social media; urban informatics; pace of life; Twitter; ecological correlation; individual behavior
CC BY
Lav R. Varshney
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Version DOI Comment Publication Date
1 10.13012/B2IDB-9276024_V1 2016-12-02

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Dataset update: {"version_comment"=>[nil, ""], "subject"=>[nil, "Social Sciences"]} 2018-02-09T16:05:56Z
Dataset update: {"description"=>["This dataset enumerates the number of geocoded tweets captured in geographic rectangular bounding boxes around the metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) defined for 49 American cities, during a four-week period in 2012, through the Twitter Streaming API.", "This dataset enumerates the number of geocoded tweets captured in geographic rectangular bounding boxes around the metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) defined for 49 American cities, during a four-week period in 2012 (between April and June), through the Twitter Streaming API.\r\n\r\nMore information on MSA definitions: https://www.census.gov/population/metro/"]} 2016-12-12T19:48:35Z
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