{"id":1661,"date":"2017-02-01T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:26:10","slug":"collecting-2a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/2017\/02\/01\/collecting-2a\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting #2a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am collecting data about the #2a hashtag and how it relates to the second amendment and recent political events\u00a0while breaking down opinions into location, age, and gender.<\/p>\n<p>By researching and collecting data on the hashtag #2a, I hope to study the differing opinions of the second amendment and how it relates to gender, age, and location. By collecting and sorting this data, I hope to create a visual representation and how it adapts to recent changes made by President Trump. There was a recent bill signed relating to &#8220;Constitutional Carry&#8221; thus the opinions of many people are in a state of flux, so it will be interesting to see the changing views of people relating to where they are and how old they are.<\/p>\n<p>My first expectation from this hashtag was to see many people arguing over whether the second amendment was constitutional or not, yet this hashtag had a more political side to it. There were a lot of retweets from @NRA talking about the recent nomination of the supreme court justice and to allow Senator Sessions to become the Attorney\u00a0General. While these two topics dominated most of the discussion, there were topics relating to police shootings and people asking questions relating to certain states laws about open carry. This hashtag is much more political than I expected\u00a0and will continue to be interesting and relevant as long as it has ties to recent politics and President Trump. I noticed a lot of #Trump and #America in a lot of these tweets, creating an interesting connection.<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1jtw1Uj3XEEt_BBCbwL2fXe5F8jy3Jat6dl8nqfpCceI\/pubhtml?gid=400689247&#038;amp;single=true&#038;amp;widget=true&#038;amp;headers=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>While searching for my hashtag on google news and limiting results to the past week, I received no news about my hashtag relating to my topic, most of the news was talking about either baseball\u00a0or division 2a in high school sports. However, when I searched my topic &#8220;Second Amendment&#8221; with the same limitation, I\u00a0received 15,000 results in less than a second. I chose two articles, one from Fox Business and the other from National Review. Both articles highlighted the recent nomination\u00a0to the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch, and how he will relate to the second amendment. The hashtag topic was more on point than the hashtag itself\u00a0because the hashtag is an abbreviation of the actual topic and most news sources will use the full name rather than a twitter abbreviation. I am a bit surprised there were no #2a tags on the news pages relating to this topic.<\/p>\n<p>When changing my search parameters to 2006, the main talking point about the second amendment was talking about how presidential candidates Bush and Kerry were both hunters, and when Vice-President Cheney had an unfortunate hunting accident. This was not too surprising to be reading about hunting from a republican president, yet the hunting accident did spark some talk about gun control. These past search results do not particularly change my view on my data.<\/p>\n<p>With the data collected, I feel like I am collecting live data since it is people&#8217;s opinions across the nation about a particular topic. Instead of having the information boiled down and filtered by a mainstream media company, I get to see the raw opinionated data and analyze the real facts and opinions from people. Data scraping is becoming a more prominent way of gathering data, and the article by\u00a0Marres and Welteverde talks about the increasing use of this technique, &#8220;To put this differently, the rising popularity of scraping is closely connected with the rise of the so-called \u2018real-time Web&#8221;(1). The tweets collected tell a shared, but more in depth story from the two current articles collected. The tweets were people&#8217;s own opinion of the Supreme Court nominee, while the news articles only discussed who the nominee was and his background. The tweets contain more data, however, good and usable can be more difficult to find. It will be easier to determine which source provides better data after collecting more tweets over the next couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Citations:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump&#8217;s Supreme Court Front-Runners on Guns, Immigration &amp; Healthcare.&#8221; Fox Business. Accessed February 01, 2017. http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/2017\/01\/31\/trump-s-supreme-court-front-runners-on-guns-immigration-healthcare.html.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Justice Gorsuch Might Mean for the Second Amendment.&#8221; National Review. February 02, 2017. Accessed February 03, 2017. http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/444480\/neil-gorsuch-united-states-supreme-court-second-amendment-police-seizure-gun.<\/p>\n<p>Maloy, Simon. &#8220;Bush &#8220;likes to hunt quail&#8221;; Cheney &#8220;loves to hunt&#8221; &#8212; but Kerry &#8220;spent time posing with guns&#8221;.&#8221; Mediamatters.org. February 14, 2006. http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2006\/02\/14\/cnns-morton-bush-likes-to-hunt-quail-cheney-lov\/134880.<\/p>\n<p>Http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Aboutcom-Civil-Liberties\/213420115372527. &#8220;Does the 2nd Amendment Protect the Individual Right to Bear Arms?&#8221; About.com News &amp; Issues. March 6, 2006. Accessed February 03, 2017. http:\/\/civilliberty.about.com\/od\/guncontrol\/i\/2ndamendment_2.htm.<\/p>\n<p>Marres, Noortje, and Esther Weltevrede. 2013. &#8220;Scraping the Social?&#8221;\u00a0<em>Journal of Cultural Economy<\/em> 6 (3): 313-315.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am collecting data about the #2a hashtag and how it relates to the second amendment and recent political events\u00a0while breaking down opinions into location, age, and gender. 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