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Show HN: How Twitter users responded to gun control debate
- geofft 14y agoThe US map is somewhat useless unless you normalize it for population (at the least, total population, although population of Internet or Twitter users would be better). It's not interesting that California has a lot more people with Twitter opinions on gun control than Idaho, given that California has a lot more people, period.
- gabemart 14y agoThere is, as always, a relevant xkcd [1] [1] http://www.xkcd.com/1138/ http://www.xkcd.com/1138/
- jacoblyles 14y agoAlso, time of day. It turns out people talk about guns a lot more when they are not sleeping.
- 0xfd 14y agoTotally, it looks as if the nation is breathing (i kinda like that for aesthetic reasons). If we bin the counts by day, a lot of the temporal resolution will be lost. What do you suggest?
- 0xfd 14y agoWe will get the necessary data (tweet flow) to normalize the counts. Thanks for your comment.
- 0xfd 14y agoYou made a good point. But it makes more sense to divide by the number of tweets (within the given time interval) from the state instead of the user count which would not normalize it.
- 0xfd 14y agomap updated. normalized by tweet flow. Thanks again.
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- sarvinc 14y agoJust wanted to point out that searching on the term 'gun' probably skews towards those who beleive in stricter legislation.
- 0xfd 14y agoWe mainly want to filter this keyword to see how the discussion of "gun" is affected by the events following Sandy Hook tragedy. The opinions classification is not done over the same dataset.