Mapping The Slap-Up Wildebeest Migration

HerdTracker has started to map the 2014 wildebeest migration. Every twelvemonth the bluish wildebeest of East Africa migrate across the Serengeti together with Massai Mara next the rains together with grass growth.

This twelvemonth Discover Africa is providing weekly updates of the wildebeest migration on a Google Map. Using data from pilots who wing over the Serengeti, safari guides on the ground, Tanzania National Parks Authority rangers together with lodges inwards the Masai Mara inwards Republic of Kenya the map provides updates on the latest locations of the wildebeest herds.

Each weekly study is displayed on the map amongst a map marker. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 large bluish marking indicates the latest study on the widebeest's location. Beneath the map a Twitter agency timeline likewise provides data on the latest reports on the wildebeest migration.

Mapping Twitter Utilisation Inward Nairobi

Idiap Research Institute in addition to Afrotech Lab at EPFL accept released an interesting map of geo-located Tweets inwards the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

The Visualization of Twitter Data from Nairobi maps Twitter messages sent inwards the Kenyan upper-case missive of the alphabet over a iii calendar month period. As good every bit showing the place of each private Tweet sent inwards the iii calendar month menstruation the map includes iii interesting give-and-take clouds in addition to a publish of observations the query squad were able to brand from the data.

The give-and-take clouds for the urban short town of Ongata Rongai, for Wajere Town in addition to the UN Complex demonstrate the nearly Tweeted words at each of the iii locations. The observations on the map unwrap closed to interesting insights into Twitter utilization inwards the city. For example, i observation notes that the Kibera slum expanse generates fewer tweets, inwards contrast to the richer neighboring areas.