What does America want? #AskObama Twitter insights knows

Re:What does America want? #AskObama Twitter insights knows by adestefan on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @04:15PM (#2735658)

This is one of the worst info graphics I've seen. The graph shows nothing. It took me a couple minutes to realize the numbers outside the box are related to the stuff inside the box. And worst of all what does time zone have to do with anything? The only thing that was even semi-useful was the tag cloud.

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Re:What does America want? #AskObama Twitter insights knows by apetresc on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @04:22PM (#2735689)

Unfortunately, geo-tagging in the Twitter API is still hardly ever used -- in almost 100,000 #AskObama tweets, less than 500 of them were tagged. At the same time we felt that location was an interesting metric, since the country is often politically divided along state lines. The time zone is the best compromise we had. It's not perfect, but the fact that the numbers match the "stereotypes" shows there's at least some merit to this approximation.

Glad you liked the word cloud at least -- I've gotta say, you've been our toughest viewer so far ;) Thanks for the feedback though.

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Re:What does America want? #AskObama Twitter insights knows by JoelSutherland on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @04:44PM (#2735805)

What does "the numbers match the stereotypes" mean? That the numbers match the relative populations of the timezones?

If so, how would I know this from the infographic? Any why would I care? Shouldn't that be the default assumption?

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