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Should also include, at minimum, the percentage of Tweets that were racist / sexist / whatever. We need to know the total volume of tweets before we can tell i
by dbg31415 13y ago
Should also include, at minimum, the percentage of Tweets that were racist / sexist / whatever. We need to know the total volume of tweets before we can tell if it's higher or lower than just "average" racism.
- KC8ZKF 13y ago"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." Emphasis mine.
- didsomeonesay 13y agoWas my initial thought too, but it seems this is already implemented. From the page: To protect privacy, actual tweet locations have been aggregated to the county level and normalized by number of tweets. I don't understand how normalization is supposed to protect privacy though.
- dkarl 13y agoThere must be some kind of adjustment. I don't think it's possible that Idaho could "outshine" California otherwise. (Well, it's Idaho, but even so, there just aren't enough people.) Not to mention parts of Maine and Vermont beating out New York City.
- grecy 13y agoBecause "average" racism would be OK?