The UK General Election:
the media, twitter, and
lessons for the US
Andy Cotgreave
Technical Evangelist, Tableau
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Andy CotgreaveTechnical Evangelist, Tableau
@acotgreave
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Andy CotgreaveTechnical Evangelist, Tableau
@acotgreave
1. How the media uses
Twitter in an election
2. Wider dataviz lessons
for US 2016
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Who did we track?
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What did we do?
+ Measure the media’s election tweets.
+ Why?
+ BBC/Buzzfeed panel. “Debate the issues” or
“Race to the bottom”?
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×50
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TV: BBC
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Labour and Ed Miliband
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Labour and Ed Miliband
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The Result
1 8
331
232
56
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