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We New Englanders are a Cranky Bunch

Posted on July 23, 2010 by in Blog | 3 Comments
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Produced by the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University (my alma mater), and Harvard Medical School at Harvard University, the above infograph was built using over 300 million tweets and shows density-preserving cartograms for each hour of the day (EST), by U.S. state. According to this data, us New Englanders are indeed a cranky bunch, only tweeting happy things in the early morning and late at night! (It also kind of makes me want to drop everything and move to California.)

Download a high-resolution PDF here.

Via Northeastern University.

3 Responses to "We New Englanders are a Cranky Bunch"

  1. Pingback: Tweets that mention We New Englanders are a Cranky Bunch – Joe Ribaudo's 'This is a Blog' -- Topsy.com

  2. IsotopeJ
    - July 23, 2010 at 11:06 pm

    Could be that those west coast people are just more worried about tweeting happy, friendly tweets so people will like them.

  3. Joe
    - July 30, 2010 at 9:22 am

    I had the impression, from looking at the data, that it has to do with the amount of sunshine states like FL and CA get…

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