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08-10-2016, 02:05 AM
Data analysis of Trump on Twitter indicates he writes only the angry tweets
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(Editor's **te: This post has been republished from the blog Variance Explained. Visit the original post (http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/) to see the code used by the author in this analysis.)
I don’t **rmally post about politics (I’m **t particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics (http://fivethirtyeight.com/)). But this weekend I saw a hypothesis about Donald Trump’s twitter account that simply begged to be investigated with data:
When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, he’s tweeting from his iPhone. When he’s insulting a rival, he’s usually tweeting from an Android. Is this an artifact showing which tweets are Trump’s own and which are by some handler? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/donald-trump-tweet-analysis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Election 2016 (http://mashable.com/category/election-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Donald Trump (http://mashable.com/category/donald-trump/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/ezbkEvjuM-o
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(Editor's **te: This post has been republished from the blog Variance Explained. Visit the original post (http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/) to see the code used by the author in this analysis.)
I don’t **rmally post about politics (I’m **t particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics (http://fivethirtyeight.com/)). But this weekend I saw a hypothesis about Donald Trump’s twitter account that simply begged to be investigated with data:
When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, he’s tweeting from his iPhone. When he’s insulting a rival, he’s usually tweeting from an Android. Is this an artifact showing which tweets are Trump’s own and which are by some handler? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/donald-trump-tweet-analysis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Election 2016 (http://mashable.com/category/election-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Donald Trump (http://mashable.com/category/donald-trump/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/ezbkEvjuM-o