Out of 4784 tweets, 4698 or 97.9% are English. Users tweeted in the following 7 languages: de (German), en (English), en-gb (United Kingdom English), es (Spanish), fr (French), it (Italian), and ja (Japanese).
| Average | 660.625 |
| Median | 556.5 |
| Mode | n/a |
| Sum | 5285 |
| Max | 1402 |
| Min | 55 |
| max-min (range) | 1347 |
1/31/17: This was one of the first few days of the Muslim Ban, and the use of #ThisIsNotNormal had not picked up yet. There were many different concerns being tweeted about on this day.
2/1/17: The use of #ThisIsNotNormal started picking up on February 1st as people became increasingly aware of different constitutional violations Trump had already committed in office.
2/2/17: High attention was paid to executive orders made since Trump took office on this day, which explains the spike. The most notable was the Muslim Ban.
2/3/17: On this day, the focus in the news was mostly on Steve Bannon and his role in the Muslim Ban. It’s interesting to me that the number of tweets decreased after a day of such high activity.
2/4/17: The Muslim Ban was suspend, which may explain why the number of tweets decreased. People may have been less worried and therefore taken a break from Twitter activity on the issue.
2/5/17: The number of tweets started going up again as people took time to educate themselves on the court rulnigs and what they meant- this was much of the information circulated.
2/6/17: A lot more opinion and work came out regarding the meaning of the Muslim Ban on this day- not just news, but scholarship.
2/7/17: On this day, Trump threatened to take the Muslim Ban to the Supreme Court. I’m not sure how this may have had an effect on the number of tweets.
Compared to the rest of the class, my mean, median, and mode seem pretty average, and there are similar trends between this hashtag and #MuslimBan as I hoped.
My min, max, count and range also seem fairly standard. I don’t seem to have any significant outliers.
I have been looking for trends related to the Muslim Ban within my data, but I have not been finding them with the analyses we have done so far. Looking at the volume of tweets each day, and maybe taking it further through additional analysis, has been helpful in showing the connection.
First off, happy Spring Weekend to you Michaela! Now to delve a little deeper into your post in which effectively outlines the dates and times in which #ThisIsNotNormal was used. It is interesting that the bars were not higher on January 31st because, while you use “it had not picked up” as an explanation, it seems that people would be impulsively outraged and this would spike, perhaps they were placing the blame on other hashtags at that moment! Maybe the Muslim Ban was not enough to make those believe that Trump’s policies were unconstitutional. I love seeing what makes people act a certain way– this type of analysis should be continued throughout Trump’s presidency! I want more analysis or in Tim Peng’s HP language – “Give it a’ar Malfoy o’ll knock you off yar bruum!”