nother data geek toy.
So Statestats lets you do something like google trends, but look at the geographic trends. It also produces a variable correlation for things like literacy and "voted for obama" and whatnot although I am not sure how those are collected and what they really mean.
For some reason, I think this is really awesome. So I like the idea of putting terms that frame issues somewhat to see what the political opinions look like geographically. I will try some non-political ones later.
The first one I tried was 'Freedom of Speech'. That was not like Obama's EV map, but you can clearly see the different regions of the country stand out in similar blocks of color.
Anyways much fun (for me at least :P).
I think it would be fun to see what some normal/unexpected terms that correlate to the map as well, but I've only started looking. One of the relationships on the map I thought was interesting was 'freedom of speech correlates well to cold weather. Which is amusing.
If anyone finds any interesting maps let me know.
I will have to try some more interesting maps later.
For some reason, I think this is really awesome. So I like the idea of putting terms that frame issues somewhat to see what the political opinions look like geographically. I will try some non-political ones later.
The first one I tried was 'Freedom of Speech'. That was not like Obama's EV map, but you can clearly see the different regions of the country stand out in similar blocks of color.
Anyways much fun (for me at least :P).
I think it would be fun to see what some normal/unexpected terms that correlate to the map as well, but I've only started looking. One of the relationships on the map I thought was interesting was 'freedom of speech correlates well to cold weather. Which is amusing.
If anyone finds any interesting maps let me know.
I will have to try some more interesting maps later.