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You can't zoom in very far without the heat map degenerating into points for individual counties. I suspect in many areas they represent individual tweets or t
by dkarl 13y ago
You can't zoom in very far without the heat map degenerating into points for individual counties. I suspect in many areas they represent individual tweets or tweeters, but I'm not seeing any hover-over data, so I'm not sure. I'm surprised -- 150k tweets sounds like a lot, but there isn't enough data for a heat map effect unless you're zoomed out to the national level.
- astine 13y agoThere are 3000+ counties and county equivalents in the US, so that makes about 50 tweets per county. That could easily be output by one or two people per county. Seeing as a lot of southern cities seem clean but with one or two really bright points nearby, I suspect that your thesis is correct and that most of these points are caused by particularly vociferous individual racists.