In the Animated/Interactive category:
Interactive map of Political Sex Scandals: you must click on the link to get the full scandalous effect
(Montserrat Compa, Jasmine D'Angelo, M. Eiben and R. Gustas of Humboldt State University)
Coffee vs. Beer: an animated time-map of Coffee and Beer consumption. (Nathan Barth and Stephen Mangum of Humboldt State University)
We had two Seven Sins Choropleth maps:
http://users.humboldt.edu/eibenm/sheepallenge.html
(Matthew Eiben, Humboldt State University)
http://tiles.mapbox.com/gfs1119/
(Gwendolyn Schaefer and Jordan Miller, University of Kentucky)
Animated wrath of god: Zoom and pan through natural disasters caused by sinners (Jeremy Battles, Humboldt State University)
In the Static map category:
Anti-Cartograms: Teriitutea QUESNOT of Université Laval
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"Rather than highlighting devilish states, I preferred to adopt a reverse logic by building anticartograms. These anticartograms are based on the mathematical inverse function (1/x) : the area of each US State is consequently inversely proportionnal to the number of Tweets included in each state. Moreover, we know that the seven heavenly virtues are not exactly the opposite of the seven deadly sins. Thus, the title of each anticartogram correspond to my own interpretation of each "antideadly sin" (e.g. « Twitter Buddhists » for the anticartogram of the « envy » deadly sin)."
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The Bacon Map: Miles Ross, Letha Gimble, and Lars Erickson (Humboldt State University)
Sinners Across The USA: Tanja Hopmans and Sean Jansen (Humboldt State University)
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| "If you want to run far far away from your grassroots vegan friends and join the bacon eating bandwagon you might try moving to a bigger city. The results from this map revealed that Seattle was the most infatuated with this lardaceous meat, seen by the overwhelming sized bacon strip that has taken over the Pacific Northwest in the map. Chicago, New York, Boston, Wichita are only a couple of the bigger cities feeding into this fattening fad." |
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| "Proportional text was created using geotagged Twitter data with tweeted keywords associated with each of the seven sins. The text represents the maximum number of tweets of the sin, normalized by country, the size of the text represents the number of tweets associated with each sin." |
Crunk n' Bible Studies: Boyd Shearer, outrageGIS.com
Rich Kids of Instagram: Ryan Cooper and Sonya Prasertong, University of Kentucky
Each of the authors above have won a t-shirt award and a certificate suitable for framing.
Honorable Mentions
The Good, The Bad and The American: Robert Gustas and Jessica Beck, Humboldt State University
In Greed we Trust: Catherine Hoyle, Humboldt State University
Lazy Humidity: Mark and David Cross, University of Kentucky
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| The goal was to determine the mood of county’s population, whether they were tweeting more about getting drunk or going to bible study. Two groups of geocoded tweets were sampled from DOLLY for the time period June 21 to November 29, 2012. Roughly 8,000 tweets were collected for each population. The “crunk” population was created from tweets that said, “Let’s get drunk,” “Let’s get fucked up,” and “Let’s get crunk.” Minor variations were also added to this population, e.g., “Let’s get crazy fucked up!” The second population was created from tweets that said, “bible study.” Assuming authors meant what they tweeted, a rather unscientific sampling of each population determined an error rate in the sentiment analysis. Approximately 4 out of 100 tweets in the “crunk” population were of a mocking or derisive tone about getting drunk, while 2 out 100 tweets in the “bible study” population were not about studying the bible as illustrated in the following tweet, “Just got asked to go to bible study....no.” |
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| "Our visualization was inspired by the website richkidsofinstagram.tumblr.com, where photos that affluent teens/young adults post on Instagram (as well as their captions) are posted. These photos and captions are often an absurd/over-the-top flaunting of their wealth, posted to inspire envy amongst us lay people. The website is a catalog of these photos, and highlights this strange phenomenon of conspicuous hyperconsumptions represented through social media. By mashing the number of RKOI-based Tweets against median household income we can begin to query deeper questions of income disparities, material consumption practices, and what it really means to #getonmylevel.” |
Honorable Mentions
The Good, The Bad and The American: Robert Gustas and Jessica Beck, Humboldt State University
Tweets of Chastity and Lust: James Knoer
In Greed we Trust: Catherine Hoyle, Humboldt State University
Seattle, Capital of Greed?: Lila Garcia, University of Washington
Sins Vs. Shows: Derek Ichen, Humboldt State University
The Evil of WalMart and Jersey Shore: Stuart Denoon-Stevens, Cape Town, South Africa
Congratulations to everybody who participated. The maps we received were fantastic beyond our wildest sheep-filled dreams!
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Some neat ideas with many of those maps, but the last one kind of irks me: "Jersey Shore" is standard for referring to that physical location; standard parlance for going to the Shore. I'd wager a pretty large contingent aren't giving any reference to the show.
ReplyDelete(deleted previous comment to fix a typo... typing things in a post-nap daze = not particularly coherent)
http://users.humboldt.edu/eibenm/sheepallenge.html
ReplyDeleteAssuming the recent Pew study is correct and blacks are twice as likely to use twitter as whites, then primarily what these maps really show is that there are more black people in the South. The data should be normalized by number of tweets in each state, not total population.