US Geography of Hate - via Twitter

[merithyn]

Step right up and see where your favorite US city falls on the hate scale based on their tweets!

Humboldt University Map of Hate

The Geography of Hate is part of a larger project by Dr. Monica Stephens of Humboldt State University (HSU) identifying the geographic origins of online hate speech. Undergraduate students Amelia Egle, Matthew Eiben and Miles Ross, worked to produce the data and this map as part of Dr. Stephens' Advanced Cartography course at Humboldt State University.

The data behind this map is based on every geocoded tweet in the United States from June 2012 - April 2013 containing one of the 'hate words'. This equated to over 150,000 tweets and was drawn from the DOLLY project based at the University of Kentucky. Because algorithmic sentiment analysis would automatically classify any tweet containing 'hate words' as "negative," this project relied upon the HSU students to read the entirety of tweet and classify it as positive, neutral or negative based on a predefined rubric. Only those tweets that were identified by human readers as negative were used in this analysis.

Proud to say that Champaign, IL, isn't that bad. Go an hour south and it's pretty pathetic, though.

[Neil]

No matter where I am, I'm always in the most hateful city in the world.

[CountDeMoney]

Not surprised Baltimore's light on the map.  We don't Tweet, we shoot.

[garbon]

Yeah we covered this recently in the OT thread - maybe Monday?

Pretty lame map considering that once you zoom out - the whole eastern half of the country is covered in hate.

DGul said something about normative data.

[merithyn]

I rarely go to the OT thread. Thought it was kind of interesting. They also did a map on racist comments about Obama during the elections, I guess.

[CountDeMoney]

I rarely go to the OT thread.

You miss some good shit in there, lady.

[garbon]

I rarely go to the OT thread.

You miss some good shit in there, lady.

It's like pure Languish distilled into one small piece of the forum.

[merithyn]

I rarely go to the OT thread.

You miss some good shit in there, lady.

It's like Saturday Night Live of the 1990s. Most weeks were shit, but once in a blue moon, there was a diamond. I don't have time to wait for the diamond.

[fhdz]

George Carlin registers his disdain that one can no longer say "cripple".

[katmai]

I'm pretty sure he can't disdain nuttin!

[fhdz]

I'm pretty sure he can't disdain nuttin!

FWOM BEYOND THE GWAVE

[Jaron]

Utah is pretty free from hate.

[Razgovory]

The map seems to be a bit off.  You get big burst of hate from places were there are no towns.

[Ideologue]

George Carlin registers his disdain that one can no longer say "cripple".

You can still use it as a verb.

[Eddie Teach]

Or to describe Tim and Ed.