Brian Norberg
IT Analyst, Trinity Technology Services
brian.norberg@duke.edu
SNL, Weekend Update, Oct 13, 2018, https://youtu.be/07oe1m67eik?t=151
Because of statements like this in the Pew Research Center's Activism in the Social Media Age:
"Although the hashtag [,#blacklivesmatter] was slow to gain prominence, there have been periodic increases in its daily usage in response to real-world events" (p. 13)
Telling stories is about finding patterns and anomalies in data then contextualizing and fleshing out those patterns
Types of tweets by hour
Anomaly: tweets contain mentions (the blue line) exceed all other tweets on April 6th and April 8th
Comparing most active users in the converstation to the most visible users
Anomaly: DukeU having nothing but mentions and all the mentions being retweets
Looking at most shared urls
Anomaly: ?
Looking at "spread" of most shared article
Anomaly: ?
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Tools used:
Social Feed Manager to collect the data
Tableau Public to create the visualizations
Questions? brian.norberg@duke.edu