Visualizing the NSA through a Diverse yet United Public

Emily SimontonBowdoin College

NSA Tweets: Location and Language

NSA Tweets with Latitude and Language Data around the World. Created with Batchgeo

The NSA and Race

Map illustrating the Percent of the White Population in Huntington Beach, CA from the 2010 Census Data. Created with SocialExplorer

Exception to Diversity: Education

Map illustrating the Percent of Residents with Some College Education in Huntington Beach, CA from the 2010 Census Data. Created with SocialExplorer

NSA Tweets Network

The first 3,000 tweets from my Twitter dataset collected by Scraperwiki on February 17, 2014. Visualization created with Gephi.

What have I learned?• The people that tweet about the NSA are diverse– They live in different places– They speak different languages– They have different ethnic backgrounds

• Tweets bounce between different people, but they tend to circulate within groups

• Why?– Hard to say, but government is an authoritative and

organizing body that unites us