{"id":12246,"date":"2017-10-11T19:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T00:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12246"},"modified":"2017-10-11T19:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T00:20:02","slug":"map-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/11\/map-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how to measure and localize the anti-vaxxers? Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisjvargo.com\/animatedautism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">map<\/a> for you:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anti-Vaxxer-Tweet-Map.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12245\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anti-Vaxxer-Tweet-Map.jpg?resize=800%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anti-Vaxxer-Tweet-Map.jpg?w=1394&amp;ssl=1 1394w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anti-Vaxxer-Tweet-Map.jpg?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anti-Vaxxer-Tweet-Map.jpg?resize=768%2C446&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anti-Vaxxer-Tweet-Map.jpg?resize=1024%2C594&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anti-Vaxxer-Tweet-Map.jpg?resize=250%2C145&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anti-Vaxxer-Tweet-Map.jpg?resize=150%2C87&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCourtesy Professor Chris Vargo of the University of Colorado-Boulder. The above is just a snapshot; follow the link for a real-time interactive map of Tweets with anti-vaccination content, expressed as a percentage of total Tweets. He used this to write up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277953617305221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a> on <em><strong>ScienceDirect<\/strong><\/em>. From the <em>Highlights<\/em> section:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>272,546 tweets contained anti-vaccine beliefs from 2009 to 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Anti-vaccine tweets in five states were higher than the national average.<\/li>\n<li>Anti-vaccine tweet volume increased with news coverage of vaccine-related events.<\/li>\n<li>Anti-vaccine tweets clustered geographically based on census characteristics.<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring social media is beneficial to curtail anti-vaccine beliefs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2017\/09\/27\/twitter-hotbed-anti-vaccine-sentiment-finds-cu-boulder-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> from <em><strong>CU Boulder Today<\/strong><\/em> on the subject has some interesting information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Colorado, Fort Collins ranked particularly high for the prevalence of anti-vaccine tweets. Regions around the country with high affluence and\/or a large number of new moms were most likely to be hotbeds of anti-vaccine Twitter users, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe debate online is far from over. There is still a very vocal group of people out there who are opposed to vaccines,\u201d said study co-author Chris Vargo, an assistant professor in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/cmci\/\">College of Media, Communication and Information<\/a>. \u201cHalf of the talk online that we observed about vaccines was negative.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Between 2010 and 2015, the study found anti-vaccine tweets became, overall, more common nationwide. As the number of households that made over $200,000 annually increased or the number of women who had delivered a baby in the past 12 months increased, so did the amount of anti-vaccine tweets.<\/p>\n<p>Within states, sentiment varied widely from city to city.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in Denver, 24 percent of tweets over the course of five years were anti-vaccine while in Fort Collins, 59 percent were.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As affluence increases, so does the likelihood that you think you know better than the experts. So does money make you smarter, like Trump seems to think?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the long time persistence of anti-vaccination tweets may indicate centers of the people having those beliefs, but I&#8217;m not sure how well Twitter works as a proxy for monitoring such beliefs &#8211; perhaps it&#8217;s just one person with a bit of an obsession for some areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how to measure and localize the anti-vaxxers? Here&#8217;s the map for you: Courtesy Professor Chris Vargo of the University of Colorado-Boulder. The above is just a snapshot; follow the link for a real-time interactive map of Tweets with anti-vaccination content, expressed as a percentage of total Tweets. 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