Visualizing the #NSA through a Diverse yet Unified Public by Emily Simonton (Bowdoin College) as part of the course Data Driven Socities (Sp14)

1. Visualizing the NSA through a
Diverse yet United Public
Emily Simonton
Bowdoin College

2. NSA Tweets: Location and Language
NSA Tweets with Latitude and Language Data around
the World. Created with Batchgeo

3. The NSA and Race
Map illustrating the Percent of the White Population in
Huntington Beach, CA from the 2010 Census Data. Created
with SocialExplorer

4. Exception to Diversity: Education
Map illustrating the Percent of Residents with
Some College Education in Huntington Beach, CA
from the 2010 Census Data. Created with
SocialExplorer

5. NSA Tweets Network
The first 3,000 tweets from my Twitter dataset collected
by Scraperwiki on February 17, 2014. Visualization
created with Gephi.

6. What have I learned?
• The people that tweet about the NSA are diverse
– They live in different places
– They speak different languages
– They have different ethnic backgrounds
• Tweets bounce between different people, but they tend
to circulate within groups
• Why?
– Hard to say, but government is an authoritative and
organizing body that unites us