New Spurious Scottish Independence Maps

In a lilliputian over 2 weeks, on the 18th September, the citizens of Scotland volition boot the bucket the polls to vote on whether Scotland should boot the bucket an independent country.

Portland Communications has been analyzing social media conversations to a greater extent than or less the ground of whether Scotland should boot the bucket independent. This analysis has focused on a number of Twitter hashtags; #indyref, #YesScotland as well as #VoteYes (the Yes campaign’s principal hashtags), & #BetterTogether as well as #NoThanks (the No side’s hashtags).

The Scottish Independence Debate on Twitter includes 2 maps which await at the geographical distribution of these Tweets. One of these maps is a at ane time nearly obligatory CartoDB Torque library animated map of Tweets. This map animates through the geo-located Twitter messages (containing the inwards a higher house hastags) from 17th July 2014 to 15th August 2014.

As amongst most of these animated Twitter maps it is hard to brand it at whatever conclusions from this map, apart from a lot of people purpose Twitter. One interesting spike inwards the information does hand on the fifth August, afterwards the root televised ground on the issue.

The other map visualizes the density of Tweets amongst the researched hashtags. The map uses dissimilar colored markers to demonstrate those Tweets inwards favor of independence as well as those against. Again it would move extremely hard to conclude anything from this map equally Twitter is belike non the best house to send a instance poll of the voting population inwards Scotland.


UsvsTh3m cause got created their ain poll on the interrogation of whether Scotland should boot the bucket independent as well as cause got mapped the results. Respondents are asked to consider the root business office of their postcode as well as respond the interrogation 'Should Scotland move an independent country?'.

Again this map should move taken amongst a pinch of tabular array salt equally it is a hugely non-representative sample of the British public. However the map does demonstrate an interesting clear north/south separate inwards the UK, suggesting the farther you lot alive from Scotland as well as thus the to a greater extent than you lot are probable to move against its independence. Except if you lot alive inwards Wales, as well as thus you lot are to a greater extent than probable to move favor of Scotland becoming independent.

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