🔥: Using Twitter and Google to Track Fires in NYC

🎥 slides here 🎥

This talk was given at NYR 2019.

The analysis is motivated by the NYCFireWire Twitter account.

It relies on the rtweet and ggmap packages, so to be able to run it in full you’ll need a Twitter API access token and Google Maps Geocoding API key.

Other things you might want to know

• The original talk was given at RLadies NYC (repo here). It includes even more drake (!!) plus some live coding.

• All functions live in didnt_start_it.R.

• Feel free to use any and all of the data, including the raw and geocoded tweet motherlode.