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The Results: #AskObama Town Hall analyzed
- eprajogo 15y agoI've been looking forward to this since I saw the awesome insight a couple of days ago, and you guys totally delivered! I love the twitter dashboard too! Great designer(s) you have on your team, please keep analyzing :)
- dwack 15y agoThanks! We'll be on the lookout for the next big social media event - ready to crunch the data. Appreciate the comment!
- serichsen 15y agoOK, where are the answers?
- apetresc 15y agoObama's answers? They were way too long to include in an infographic, but you can watch them at http://askobama.twitter.com http://askobama.twitter.com
- dwack 15y agoThat's exactly right. We do have a word cloud at the bottom generated from a transcript of all of his answers, however.
- darklajid 15y agoNo offense, but - that's not helping. The OP probably (like me) wanted to hear the real thing. A world cloud can be fun to see how repetitive some words are used or maybe even give a limited glimpse of what the focus was for Obama here - but in general it's more a toy feature and ~useless~. Pretty, cool - but not helpful.
- lazugod 15y agoIf a transcript is available, why isn't it posted as well?
- element12 15y agoThis is a silly question. As I understand it, the info-graphic was meant to summarize results of the the event. Quit trolling.
- apetresc 15y agoFor those asking for it, here's a full transcript: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/twitter-town-hall-transcript-barack-obama-jack-dorsey.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/twitter-t...
- shaggyfrog 15y ago"Board" should be "Broad", if anyone who created this is reading.
- highriseo 15y agoThis is awesome. I wish more companies would take the time to show data in meaningful ways.
- davidhollander 15y agoDuring the interview http://askobama.twitter.com/ http://askobama.twitter.com/ at 42m20s, they claim that 10% of the questions are on Education, whereas twitsprout shows only 2% were on Education.
- apetresc 15y agoRight. That was our biggest deviation from their numbers. There's quite a lot of things that could account for it -- both of us are using imperfect heuristics to classify them, and they didn't exactly explain their methodology with regards to what counts as a unique question. In our case, we counted rephrasings, RTs, and quotes as retweets, not just the native ones. This may account for the difference. We may make the data set we gathered public some time, so people can draw their own conclusions about which categorizations are more accurate.
- darklajid 15y agoThis _is_ getting a bit offtopic, but - looking at that video I was stunned to see roundabout (No, didn't count them..) a dozen 'Good to see you. How are you?' during his entrance. Now - I'm not trying to mock this, it's just sooo disconnected from all I know: Why do you ask questions, if you expect no answers? I see this here (moved to Israel) as well - strangers say hi and ask what's up - but don't care. At home, in Germany, I'd consider this not sincere. Yet, it seems to be quite the norm.
- cbr 15y agoWords sometimes don't mean what they look like they should mean. In the US, "how are you?" or "what's up?" mean about the same thing as "nice to see you". It's not really a question, just a greeting. Confusing to learn, but a protocol that works fine once people on both ends understand it.
- lazyemily 15y agoThis is so awesome! Love Twitsprout :D