looking back on the data collected, I would think that most of the tweets would come from the Southern and Northeastern areas of the United States as well as California since these are the locations where the second amendment is being discussed. The latitude and longitude would be around 30 degrees latitude and around 100 degrees longitude, around the southern United States. guessing my hometown, I believe it is 32 degrees latitude, -97 degrees longitude. I do believe my hometown is one of the centers of my hashtag since it is a major topic of discussion.
Out of 53,146 tweets, only 19 had geolocations, meaning I only have .0004% mappable tweets. This low percentage is very surprising to see. This data definitely under-represents the population, because the sample size is way too small for all of these tweets to represent the larger whole.Based on the latitude and longitude, it appears as if most of the tweets are located around the southern states, from 25-35 degrees latitude. This connects back to my earlier point about the southern states having the most discussion about the second amendment. all of the mappable tweets are in English, and the majority of non-mappable tweets are in English as well.
I do not think i have big data in this mappable data since the percentage is so low compared to the amount of data gathered. The unmappable tweets are big data to me, but I am not sure why the majority are not mappable. The .0004% seems very low compared to most, however, this is a very controversial topic being discussed, thus people might not want their location known.
Hey Harrison, Tim here again. I too had very few mappable tweets so I understand the struggle of not having many points on the data set to view. I agree also with your interpretation of whether or not your data is big. I felt that the entire collected hashtag database was still small data! I like that your map is very easy to read and it is simple to identify where all the tweets are coming from. I had a similar distribution of tweets as well, many of mine came from the southern states. This leads me to believe that the majority of Trump supporting tweets are coming from the southern half of the US.
also, for further research: if you get around to looking at the census maps, I would suggest looking at the income of the places where your tweets are coming from.
Harrison, I am quite surprised that more than 50,000 tweets used the hashtag #2a since #2a isn’t a topic that I have heard about much. It demonstrates how “localized” this issue may be because I am from Upstate New York, nowhere close to the areas that you mentioned that you thought more tweets would come from, including your hometown of Dallas. Notice how there are no tweets in the Northeast – which is really interesting because most of my tweets came from that area and it is also the most populated area in the U.S. Though it may be a localized or regionalized issue, it still is very significant in those areas because you had way more tweets than Tim (about 10,000) and was still somewhat close to me (68,000+) even though our issues may be thought of as more widespread.
Do you know if the areas of the geotagged tweets are dealing with new state or local laws regulating gun control? Though #2a is rarely mentioned in my hometown, #2a became a major topic when New York State Governor Cuomo signed a law requiring gun owners to reregister their guns. Also, whenever local law enforcement tries to develop initiatives to regulate guns, people discuss #2a and its relevance in today’s world. I would be interested in seeing a map of gun crime in these areas – to see if it influences people’s opinions on #2a. Since my tweets are concentrated mostly on the West and East Coast, your post provided me insight on what Southern states in the U.S. may be tweeting about and to think more of what local issues may influence my hashtag.