"Unemployed" Tweets
With the current state of our economy, I decided to look at twitter for tweets with "Unemployed" keyword. I took this information from Twitter along with User's location and mapped it out on Google Maps.
There are two buttons at the top left corner of the map which are labeled "Eastern Untied States" and "Western United States". The map defaults to "Eastern". If you click on "Eastern United States" button then tweets are shown from within 1500 miles radius of "Cincinnati, Ohio". If you click on "Western United States" button then tweets are shown from within 1500 miles radius of "Los Angeles".
(Thanks to Google Maps Mania for mentioning this mashup)
Labels: economy, Google_Maps, unemployed
posted by Virender Ajmani @ 7:41 AM
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1 Comments:
You are a genius ...this is awesome stuff!!!
The same approach would work for some sort of geographical skills screen ... instead of "unemployed" it would be something like "python" or "SQL" or "shelve." For example: let's say that a company or startup wanted to pull together a team of contractors for a short-term project (i.e. the short term project might be a lengthy interview to sort wheat from chaff) ... it would make sense to site the work in an area represented by a cluster of talent.
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