Salon.com > data visualization http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 16:30:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Where are America’s racist anti-Obama tweets coming from? http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/where_are_americas_racist_anti_obama_tweets_coming_from/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/09/where_are_americas_racist_anti_obama_tweets_coming_from/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:34:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13067690 A group of academics that run the data visualization blog Floatingsheep has collected “some of the nastiest tweets you might possibly imagine" post-election and mapped them onto physical locations. The results are not all-together unsurprising: Many of the racist tweets against Obama come from states that voted for Romney, and there is a higher than average concentration in the southeastern United States. Time writes:

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