Geography of Hate

[oldno7]

http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#

[Scott Card]

Utah looks pretty good!

[Iceaxe]

About a year ago Salt Lake made a top ten list for best places for gays, which surprised a lot of people.

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[cchoc]

Maybe nobody tweets in Utah? :lol8:

[DOSS]

Maybe nobody tweets in Utah? :lol8:

looks like the data is normalized so that isnt the reason

[cchoc]

Except that a lot of Utah outside cities, at least based on my experience, has little or no cell data service - thus no tweets at all from those places.

[DOSS]

Except that a lot of Utah outside cities, at least based on my experience, has little or no cell data service - thus no tweets at all from those places.

Then if there are 0 tweets from an area that is not a measured area and does not matter as the whole premise is based off of twitter... if there are very low numbers that is what normalization of data is all about ;)

[cchoc]

I know a bit about sampling. If the sample size is too small it should be ignored. You can say normalized, but I say meaningless in areas with no data coverage since it is Twitter based, and also because Twitter use isn't what I would call a good metric in the first place. :)


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[DOSS]

I know a bit about sampling. If the sample size is too small it should be ignored. You can say normalized, but I say meaningless in areas with no data coverage since it is Twitter based, and also because Twitter use isn't what I would call a good metric in the first place. :)


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You would be right it would not be an ideal metric.. but that is what the hatemap is based on.. So the population in question is people who use Twitter.. not the entire US population so it does actually create a good representation of twitter users and their use of hate words.. Don't assume that the population of a study is everyone, but you would know that if you knew more than a bit about statistical analysis :)

[Scott P]

Utah has few racial problems when compared to other areas. You don't here that many racial slurs in Utah and the mountain west (with the possible exception of a few big cities). Part of it may be due to the fact that comparatively here isn't that much racial diversity, but still you don't hear of racial problems there.

In Utah, the slurs would be against environmentalist or democrats.:haha: In New York it would be the other way around.:haha:

[cchoc]

Ok, you win, people in Utah who can't tweet don't tweet hate words. ;-)


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