The top two words in Cable News Twitter on Friday were “Tamir” and “Eric”, clearly demonstrating that ongoing discussions about police killings were dominating the conversation:
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Raw Data: 2014-12-12-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-12-WordStats.csv
Anderson Cooper won Cable News Twitter on Friday, giving him a rare best hour win. His mentions were driven by his interview with Samaria Rice, mother of slain 12-year old Tamir Rice. Following Cooper were Rachel Maddow, Chris hayes, Morning Joe, and Hannity. The normally first or second place Kelly File dropped to 8th place for her special on the torture report.
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Raw data for the day: 2014-12-12-ShowStats.csv and 2014-12-12 Schedule.csv
Although I primarily focus on Social Media in this blog, I can’t resist looking at a good dataset that seems to have been overlooked by a lot of people. One example of this is Florida’s state payroll, which Governor Rick Scott put online as a government accountability project.
I have analyzed the data to examine the question about whether there’s a “gender pay gap” in the State of Florida’s payroll. The answer seems to be yes, but not blatant. The analysis covers, in detail, why that is (and isn’t).
More interestingly, perhaps, is that the analysis is 100% open source and reproducible. You can download the report here, and also download the complete analysis logic from Github. It’s yours for the taking, tweaking, or enhancing.
You can read the report here: GenderBias.pdf
And you can see the program that generates the report on Github.
Thursday was a day full of tweet-worthy topics: The torture report, police killings, budget shenanigans. So what won out? The top topic was congressional staffers walking out to protest police violence, followed by torture and Stephen Colbert:
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The top word for the day, “just”, appears in several unrelated tweets with multiple meanings. Some mean now, as in the phrase “just in”. Some are in the sense of only, like “just him”. A few are in the sense of justice. But there’s no consistent usage I can discern to make it a topic unto itself.
Raw data: 2014-12-11-TagStats.csv and 2014-12-11-WordStats.csv
CNN’s Situation Room & Wolf Blitzer won Cable News Twitter yesterday on the strength of one tweet:
JUST IN: Eric Garner’s daughter stages a ‘die-in’ in same spot her father was taken down http://t.co/xEKulRW4E6 @CNN pic.twitter.com/feEi0DxXbz
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) December 12, 2014
With this, and all the other tweets that mention him and his show, Wolf Blitzer’s mentions topped 16K for the day, a very strong showing. Following Wolf for best day was Hannity (12K mentions) and Colbert (8.7K).
In best-hour news, Hannity won with a fairly average (for him) result. He was followed closely by Kelly, and then more distantly by The Situation Room, Ed Show, and Morning Joe:
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Raw data for the day: 2014-12-11-ShowStats.csv
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