Patrick

Patrick is a tool that performs a geospatial analysis of topics on Twitter. The importance of social networks is increasing every day. Specifically, Twitter, a microblogging social network, is a valuable source of information. With Patrick, you can discover tweets about the topics you are interested in and exploit all the data with multiple visualizations.

Patrick uses an advanced GIS technology, called CartoDB, providing an insightful view of the collected tweets. It offers a great variety of visualisations: static maps, clustered maps, temporal maps, etc.

As a commercial product, Patrick offers:

• An interactive tool capable of retrieving relevant tweets from a user query.
• A spatial analysis of the retrieved tweets.
• A temporal analysis of the retrieved tweets.
• Multiple options of visualizations (simple, bubble, torque, etc.).
• Flexibility: possibility of adding custom text analysis algorithms (such as LDA).