Hate Map

Dr. Monica Stevens has mapped the hate remarks make by people on Twitter to show where they originate. It's a very interesting map but I'm not all that surprised.

See the map here.

http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#

Interesting idea. I'm not sure what it means. Take a look:

"Dr. Monica Stevens, assistant professor of geography at Humboldt State University in California, has turned her academic focus in an interesting direction. Working with a team of undergrads, Dr. Stevens has sorted through over 150,000 tweets containing racial or sexual slurs and produced a map of America showing the distribution of their origin." - from www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2013/05/mapping-hate/

The result is a "hate map" that shows which areas of the United States produced the most tweets, which can be filtered for various types of slur.