Geography Blog

Tag: Twitter

  • Hate speech map based on Twitter feeds

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    averslui

    Geography students at Humboldt State University in California created this map of hate speech in the U.S. based on Twitter feeds: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/twitter-hate-speech_n_3265916.html.

  • Mapping Racist Tweets

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    mbjellan

    RacisThe geography über nerds at the Floating Sheep collective have made another fascinating map. They mapped geo-tagged racist tweets that emerged after President Barack Obama’s re-election and computed location quotients based on the total state volume of tweets. One weakness of the map is that the sample size was small since they only sampled 0.05% of…