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Racist Language on Twitter
Click for larger image For the last 2 months, I’ve been collecting geo-tagged tweets from across the lower 48 states. To date, that total is over 8 million unique tweets. And as I’ve explored what’s in...
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Swearing on Twitter
Wow, there sure is a lot of cursing going on twitter! Over 7% of tweets on twitter contain one of 5-swear words tracked in this analysis. CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE Is cursing regional? On twitter it...
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Manners vs F-Bombs
Many have seen the decline of “please” and “thank you” in the language as a sign that as a whole, society is becoming increasingly more rude. Although, it “a commonplace remark that older people...
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These are a few of my favorite things (by state)
CLICK FOR A LARGER IMAGE This map shows, for each state, which word was used the most, above and beyond the national average between 2/23/15 and 5/4/15 Certain words were disallowed, because such an...
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Favorite Baseball Team (according to Twitter)
CLICK FOR A LARGER IMAGE This map shows each county’s favorite major league baseball (MLB) team. Or technically, which MLB team was mentioned the most. This data comes from an analysis of 15mil...
View ArticleJust published – Koehler & Mishra (2015)
Just published in the SAGE encyclopedia of educational technology. Koehler, M.J., & Mishra, P. (2015). TPACK (technological pedagogical content knowledge). In J. Spector (Ed.), The SAGE...
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YOU MAD? Regional variations in anger expressed in tweets
“You mad?” – The internet, it seems, represents a perfect place to vent anger, start a flamewar, and engage in uncivil behavior. Especially in unmoderated comment forums, the combination of distance...
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Where’s the love? Twitter analysis
The internet-era has brought forth a new age of sharing. We share photos, accomplishments, cat videos, trials, and tribulations. We also share a lot of what’s on our minds. Previously, I used an...
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Bad, Naughty! A twitter analysis
In this analysis of twitter, I followup on the SwiftKey Emoji Report that analyzed what emojis are most popular (by country) sent from text messages (MSM) using their swiftKey keyboard (on IOS and...
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Connecting Faculty Rank, h-index, and citation counts
More and more, academics are becoming open to the possibilities of using citation counts and h-index scores in considerations of measuring academic impact. As little as 3 years ago, most faculty...
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