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benjamincburns on May 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heat map of homophobic and racist tweets

Total wild ass guess, but I'd bet the total number of tweets for a region is roughly proportional to its total population. If that's true, the normalized results you see here will be very similar to the per-capita results. It'd be interesting to verify this, however. It would tell you "this region's twitter users are X% [more|less] 'hateful' than the region's general population."

mtowle on May 13, 2013 [–]

There's no way Montanans tweet just as often as Californians.

benjamincburns on May 13, 2013 | [–]

It'd be interesting to find out. There are a lot of very diverse populations in California.

[Edit: I should place extra emphasis on the word "roughly," in my OP as well.]

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