The Results: #AskObama Town Hall analyzed

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by michaelrlitt • 15 years ago

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eprajogo• 15 years ago

I've been looking forward to this since I saw the awesome insight a couple of days ago, and you guys totally delivered! I love the twitter dashboard too!

Great designer(s) you have on your team, please keep analyzing :)

dwack3• 15 years ago

Thanks! We'll be on the lookout for the next big social media event - ready to crunch the data. Appreciate the comment!

serichsen• 15 years ago

OK, where are the answers?

apetresc4• 15 years ago

Obama's answers? They were way too long to include in an infographic, but you can watch them at http://askobama.twitter.com

dwack3• 15 years ago

That's exactly right. We do have a word cloud at the bottom generated from a transcript of all of his answers, however.

shaggyfrog• 15 years ago

"Board" should be "Broad", if anyone who created this is reading.

apetresc4• 15 years ago

I've scoured the text, but I just can't see it :( Where's the mistake?

mnutt• 15 years ago

It's in the Klout score plot.

highriseo• 15 years ago

This is awesome. I wish more companies would take the time to show data in meaningful ways.

davidhollander• 15 years ago

During the interview http://askobama.twitter.com/ at 42m20s, they claim that 10% of the questions are on Education, whereas twitsprout shows only 2% were on Education.

apetresc4• 15 years ago

Right. That was our biggest deviation from their numbers. There's quite a lot of things that could account for it -- both of us are using imperfect heuristics to classify them, and they didn't exactly explain their methodology with regards to what counts as a unique question. In our case, we counted rephrasings, RTs, and quotes as retweets, not just the native ones. This may account for the difference.

We may make the data set we gathered public some time, so people can draw their own conclusions about which categorizations are more accurate.

darklajid2• 15 years ago

This _is_ getting a bit offtopic, but - looking at that video I was stunned to see roundabout (No, didn't count them..) a dozen 'Good to see you. How are you?' during his entrance.

Now - I'm not trying to mock this, it's just sooo disconnected from all I know: Why do you ask questions, if you expect no answers? I see this here (moved to Israel) as well - strangers say hi and ask what's up - but don't care. At home, in Germany, I'd consider this not sincere. Yet, it seems to be quite the norm.

cbr• 15 years ago

Words sometimes don't mean what they look like they should mean. In the US, "how are you?" or "what's up?" mean about the same thing as "nice to see you". It's not really a question, just a greeting. Confusing to learn, but a protocol that works fine once people on both ends understand it.

lazyemily• 15 years ago

This is so awesome! Love Twitsprout :D

The Results: #AskObama Town Hall analyzed

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