daplpipelinefacts.com<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>a pro-pipeline website and the first Google search result for the terms “dakota access pipeline.” I filtered the words similarly, removing the words “dakota,” “access,” and “pipeline” to highlight unique words and phrases. I chose this as a counterpoint to #NoDAPL, which represents and is used by those opposing the construction of the pipeline. I wanted to explore both sides of the issue, and examine the similarities and differences in the rhetoric used.<\/p>\nIn the Twitter word cloud, the American character of #NoDAPL is subtle: “potus” and “blacklivesmatter” are primarily American, but most of the other terms could apply in a global context as well. The DAPL Pipeline Facts word cloud is more clearly\u00a0American. Place names\u2014”iowa,” “illinois,” “bakken”\u2014point to the United States, and words such as “army,” “regulatory,” “reservation,” and “protesters” often come up in other conversations about the United States. This dataset highlights\u00a0issues that are not discussed on Twitter, mentioning the safety, legality, and feasibility of the project. While the conversation on Twitter focuses on rights and resistance, the “Pipeline Facts” website offers justifications.<\/p>\n
In Yau’s and Wiley’s discussions of visualizing data, they seem to be arguing two sides of the same coin. Tufte writes about “superior methods,” referring to both the practices of data collection and visualization. Yau also details the importance of understanding and proper application of graphics, but handles the collection and analysis of data elsewhere. In creating my own visualizations, I found myself gravitating towards Tufte’s methods. Using the word cloud\u00a0helped to see the Twitter data and better understand the conversations going on. Having some context from the other labs, I was able to improve my visualization using stopwords and adjusting the total size to reveal important topics that were not immediately obvious.<\/p>\n
Works Cited<\/span><\/p>\nTufte, Edward R. 2011. “Visual &Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions.” In\u00a0Envisioning Information<\/em>, 27-54. Cheshire, CT.: Graphics Press.<\/p>\nYau, Nathan. 2013 “Representing Data.” In\u00a0Data Points<\/em>, 91-134. Hoboken: Wiley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dakota Access Pipeline and the protests at Standing Rock have generated a great deal of conversation through the month of February. Early on, the Seattle City Council’s potential divestment from a bank funding the Dakota Access Pipeline had Twitter users tweeting a message to representatives; several weeks later, protesters made themselves heard when faced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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