{"id":2171,"date":"2011-08-11T13:44:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T13:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/liquidicity\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:49:27","slug":"london-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/london-riots","title":{"rendered":"London Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few days, London has been under siege from multiple rioting mobs of hooligans and thugs. GoSquared (based in London) has been enabling a number of sites reporting on the situation to understand how events have been unfolding in real-time.<\/p>\n

London Riots Map<\/a>, based on Google Maps was created when the riots broke out to chart the London riots from a first person perspective by plotting tweets with the hashtag #londonriots that have an associated postcode. Cravify<\/a>, a service for mapping events has also been used in a similar way.<\/p>\n

We decided to put together a simple visualisation of how the events in London have unfolded – both in terms of web traffic that we monitored on GoSquared<\/a> (we provide real-time web analytics after all – perfect for events like this), and from our first hand perspective being based in London.<\/p>\n

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Real-time monitoring proven useful again.<\/h3>\n

We reached out to Ben Fishman, soon after he created such a topical application. The challenge was on to map and analyse the audience and the interest in the app and the riots themselves. GoSquared’s real-time monitoring proved extremely useful in understanding how the worldwide audience were discovering and understanding the London riots as they were happening.<\/p>\n

GoSquared is enablng the LondonRiotMap to get an in-depth and professional insight into a variety of information including:<\/p>\n