{"id":2455,"date":"2017-03-01T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2017-03-03T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:32:40","slug":"lab-3-return-of-2a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/amst-data-driven\/2017\/03\/01\/lab-3-return-of-2a\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 3: Return of #2a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Browsing through some of the tweets between 2\/2\/17 through 2\/8\/17, I saw a lot of tweets relating to veterans before refugees and people targeting Starbucks about their recent political stances. I hope to see more discussion about the second amendment rather than indirect references with a more in-depth analysis.<\/p>\n

In the time span listed above, there are 934,171 words with 27,589 unique words listed. It is interesting to see that under some of the most used words per day, a lot of the words are usernames instead of common words such as the, must, etc. I am not surprised that the most common word is #2a since it was the tag all of my tweets were collected from.<\/p>\n

The most used term outside of the stopwords is NRA, which is not surprising since this topic is dealing with the second amendment and firearm rights. What stumped me is the second and fourth most used terms are #MAGA and 1a. I know 1a means the first amendment, however, that deals with freedom of speech so not sure how it is relevant to my topic. I have no idea what #MAGA is, though. The new stopwords I eliminated are:<\/p>\n

\u00e2, 2000-2017, 0000, and\u00a0\u00f0\u0178<\/p>\n

I changed my scale to show 125 terms.<\/p>\n

In the terms shown, I noticed a lot of use of the nra, tcot, and maga. I am not too surprised to see these terms used when referring to the second amendment, as it is a topic discussed heavily in the republican party and these are heavily right terms. I am still surprised to see the term 1a in the mix, and used often as well. Another term I was surprised about was coffee, which might be referring to a coffee corporation hiring veterans. The cloud contains some obvious and subtle arguments, the main topic being firearm control while the more subtle is a discussion about the media.\"Screen<\/p>\n

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I am choosing tcot, trump, maga, and nra\u00a0since they all relate to current events and some of trumps proposals in the recent month. I am not too surprised that majority of these terms all increase in use over one day, since the discussion of Trump’s proposed new gun laws took place from 2\/3-2\/6. MAGA saw a major uptick as well due to trump coming out with multiple bills in such a short time period, thus it is used outside of my tag.<\/p>\n

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I am using an article from the New York Times published on Feb. 7th about Trump’s recent plan to change some firearm control rights. Aside from the general stopwords, I did not need to eliminate any words from this article. The biggest differences I see are the use of database, mental, health, policy, and Obama. It is interesting to see these terms when referring to firearm control since there has been a debate about mental health checks and creating a database to track all firearm owners, but this talk has been passed over on twitter. I am not sure why these debate topics have been left out, but it will be interesting to see how these ideas develop over time.<\/p>\n

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