Map of the Day (12/30)

[Brian Howell]

Today's Map of the Day. If you've already seen it, please don't spoil it for others.

Color maps to frequency, with cyan indicating few and orange indicating many. 

Note that the method of compiling the data for this map has met with some criticisms.

[jack saunders]

Surrounding the hot spots are the cold spots.

Something about the many turns off the near neighbors.

Concealed carry permits?

 

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[Craig Good]

Porn downloads.

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[Brian Howell]

An interesting and very good guess, Jack. But incorrect. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a strong correlation between such permits and the data that are the subject of this map. And it is that, the map's subject, that is today's correct answer. 

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:43 PM, jack saunders <jack...@pacbell.net> wrote:

Surrounding the hot spots are the cold spots.

Something about the many turns off the near neighbors.

Concealed carry permits?

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[Brian Howell]

Ha! Clever. But wrong.

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[Craig Good]

Florida would be higher, and there would be pretty much nothing on California’s map. This state’s system is so corrupt that you can only sometimes get a CCW out in the rural areas.


> On Dec 30, 2015, at 14:29 PM, Brian Howell <bdho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Concealed carry permits?
>


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theirs.
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[jack saunders]

I'm theorizing that the over-use of something systematically provokes a sharp interest in abstinence among those nearby.

Crystal meth use?

 

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[Brian Howell]

I now realize that my comment about color mapping was slightly misleading. The map's colors are a coarse quantization of attitudinal data gleaned from social media. (Hence my earlier comment about criticisms concerning compilation of the data.)

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[Brian Howell]

The colors correspond to the abstracted geographic frequency (localized to within the enclosing county) of the expression of a particular attitude (state of mind; perception) by people, as algorithmically discerned within a dataset accumulated from social media. Orange is the highest frequency of such expression, cyan the lowest; deep blue is actually the quantum immediately above cyan. I realize now that the map makers' color choices were poor and confusing: I admit to having been confused until I viewed the map's legend. I'm sorry for not making that clear from the outset.

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:47 PM, jack saunders <jack...@pacbell.net> wrote:

I'm not sure what you mean, Brian.  Is it correct to interpret orange for heavy use (of whatever it is) and deep blue to reflect usually light use?

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[Craig Good]

Global warming denial.

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 15:57 PM, Brian Howell <bdho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The colors correspond to the abstracted geographic frequency (localized to within the enclosing county) of the expression of a particular attitude (state of mind; perception) by people

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"To disarm the people - that was the best and most effective way
to enslave them ...."
- George Mason ( Framer of the Declaration of Rights, Virginia,
1776, which became the basis for the U.S. Bill of Rights )

[Brian Howell]

Now we're on the right track. But still wrong. More fundamental than that.

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Craig Good <clg...@me.com> wrote:

Global warming denial.

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[jack saunders]

I like that guess -- wrong, even if it may be, it still evoked an interesting model of extremism -- climate denier people tend to be very hot in their argumentation, very ad hominem, highly suspicious of hidden motives that may cover spiritual corruption....not very polite form for your typical Rotarian.  These are angry people, and I could anticipate a suburban migration away from them by the by the "normals", only enriching the air.

 

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[Craig Good]

Creationism. (Evolution denial.)

General mistrust of science.

I’d guess vaccine denial, but California and Oregon would have been lit up like Las Vegas.

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 16:39 PM, Brian Howell <bdho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Now we're on the right track. But still wrong. More fundamental than that.
>

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"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of
prejudices."
-- Laurence J. Peter

[Brian Howell]

Well, the map shows a form of denial. And the signature quote from your last response obliquely addresses the map's subject as well.

   "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of
    prejudices."
            -- Laurence J. Peter

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Craig Good <clg...@me.com> wrote:

Creationism. (Evolution denial.)

General mistrust of science.

I’d guess vaccine denial, but California and Oregon would have been lit up like Las Vegas.

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[jack saunders]

Survivalist militias -- with the normals chased into the blue areas.

Hunting rifles!

 

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[jack saunders]

This map evokes contagion resistance to me.  I sense active pushing by the blue on the orange to keep from spreading.

 

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[Brian Howell]

Remember, Jack: the map shows an attitude. And there's my last hint to you: ad hominem. And then there's my reference to the signature quote from Craig's last guess:

   "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of
    prejudices."
            -- Laurence J. Peter

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:59 PM, jack saunders <jack...@pacbell.net> wrote:

Survivalist militias -- with the normals chased into the blue areas.

Hunting rifles!

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[Craig Good]

They aren’t actually trying to measure racism, are they?

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 17:09 PM, Brian Howell <bdho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Remember, Jack: the map shows an attitude.

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Superuser

[Brian Howell]

I give you the Hate Map: http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Craig Good <clg...@me.com> wrote:

They aren’t actually trying to measure racism, are they?

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[Craig Good]

I can see why some people aren’t buying it.

I haven’t heard queer used pejoratively in years. But hang around with queers and you hear it all the time. There’s another word on their list that gets used by the in group quite a bit. I’m sure you can guess which.

That’s a nice visualization of a pretty poorly designed study, I say.

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 18:30 PM, Brian Howell <bdho...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I give you the Hate Map: http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Craig Good <clg...@me.com> wrote:
> They aren’t actually trying to measure racism, are they?


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[Brian Howell]

Actually, I think the study was pretty well designed: (emphasis mine; grammar errors theirs)

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 [are] 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 [sic; each 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.

To produce the map all tweets containing each 'hate word' were aggregated to the county level and normalized by the total twitter traffic in each county. [sic] Counties were reduced to their centroids and assigned a weight derived from this normalization process. This was used to generate a heat map that demonstrates the variability in the frequency of hateful tweets relative to all tweets over space. Where there is a larger proportion of negative tweets referencing a particular 'hate word' the region appears red on the map, where the proportion is moderate, the word was used less (although still more than the national average) and appears a pale blue on the map. Areas without shading indicate places that have a lower proportion of negative tweets relative to the national average.

The numbers that appear in the map during a mouse hover indicate the total number of hateful tweets and number of unique users sending them in each county.

Read more about the research and methods behind this project at www.FloatingSheep.org.

Funding was provided by the University Research and Creative Activities Fellowship at Humboldt State University. Twitter data was obtained from the DOLLY project at University of Kentucky.

This map was built on the Google Maps API.

The DOLLY project: (pretty cool) http://www.floatingsheep.org/p/dolly.html

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[Jack Saunders]

WOW!  That certainly explains why we never got very excited about the gay rights debate out here.  Not a lot of flaming going on.  But that sure doesn't apply back east.  There, I now must surmise, we all would have grown up on a steady diet of homophobic trash talk...most of it probably not meant lterally, but nevertheless warning every little boy of the nasty things that could be said about him if he strayed from the protective shield of gender conformity.

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[Jack Saunders]

The list is probably servicable for flagging a large sample of tweets.  At that point the meaning and purpose of each would have to be assessed subjectively, but you could build protocols and train screeners to be pretty darn sure...and toss out all that end in the ambiguous bin.  People who tweet to hurt usually make their intent quite plain.

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