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Analyzing the EU Migration Crisis as Reflected on Twitter.

Sagnik Mukherjee¹, Eva Hauthal¹, Dirk Burghardt¹

¹Institute of Cartography, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany.

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Summary

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Researchers analyzed European Union migration crisis tweets from 2016-2021 using novel methods. This study structures complex social media data, offering insights into geo-social media analysis for future research.

Keywords:

EU migration crisis Geospatial visualization Social media Twitter User generated data

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Area of Science:

Social Sciences
Computer Science
Data Science

Background:

Social media platforms like Twitter are increasingly vital information sources for researchers.
Analyzing large-scale social media data presents significant challenges in structuring and interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze and visualize tweets concerning the European Union migration crisis between 2016 and 2021.
To develop and apply a methodology for structuring complex geo-social media data.
To create a web-based interactive application for exploring the organized dataset.

Main Methods:

Utilized the facet model of location-based social media.
Employed the HyperLogLog data structure for efficient data processing.
Applied novel uses of the metric typicality and spatial typicality for analysis and visualization.

Main Results:

Developed a structured dataset of tweets related to the EU migration crisis.
Created visualizations, including maps using spatial typicality, to study spatial phenomena.
Demonstrated a reproducible methodology for multi-lingual geo-social media data analysis.

Conclusions:

The proposed methods and metrics effectively structure and analyze complex geo-social media data.
The developed application and techniques offer a template for future studies on migration and other spatial phenomena.
This work enhances the understanding and communication of geo-social media data for researchers.