05-19-2013, 12:52 AM
Chakravartin wrote:
Once again, imbeciles confuse Internet-access and racism.
This is a map of broadband-access in the U.S.A.
Look familiar?
Congratulations! You've successfully mapped Twitter-usage in the USA.
WRONG! Before jumping to conclusions, perhaps you should have clicked the link and looked at the methodology. The data were normalized for twitter usage level down to the county level.
To produce the map all tweets containing each 'hate word' were aggregated to the county level and normalized by the total twitter traffic in each county. Counties were reduced to their centroids and assigned a weight derived from this normalization process. This was used to generate a heat map that demonstrates the variability in the frequency of hateful tweets relative to all tweets over space. Where there is a larger proportion of negative tweets referencing a particular 'hate word' the region appears red on the map, where the proportion is moderate, the word was used less (although still more than the national average) and appears a pale blue on the map. Areas without shading indicate places that have a lower proportion of negative tweets relative to the national average.