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Geographically Weighted Regression

Objective: To understand geographically related tweets.

Methodology:

  • Aggregate all tweets per hashtag to the county geography in United States

  • Understand distibution of raw tweets per county

  • Normalize the raw counts with population of the county

  • Log transformation of the data to better suit geographically weighted regression methodolgy

  • GWR on each combination of the tweets to understand basic observations

  • Basic observations:
  • Map matrix (all hashtags vs. all other hashtags)

final_grid

  • Top twelve hashtags correlations weighted geographically for each tweet -

blackgirlsmagic blackgirlsrock blackgirlsrun blacktwitter getoutchallenge growingupblack icebucketchallenge jessewilliams neweditionbet oscarsowhite sayhername thanksgiving thankyouobama unameitchallenge whoistacey

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