Syntactic Geolectal Variation

Data for linguistic analysis from social media are being used for a variety of reasons. One of the most attractive reasons is the possibility of gathering very large quantities of data in the digital form. However, collecting data from these sources is not always a simple task. In this chapter, a few methods to harvest data from Twitter will be introduced like FireAnt, 140dev Streaming API Framework , and Elastic Stack , as well as visualization tools like QGIS to map geotagged tweets. Finally,