PodCamp Pittsburgh is back for 2017 at the Point Park University Library. It is a social media unconference where practitioners share the tricks of the trade. It is free to attend and if you like you can propose your own topic to share your wisdom with the masses. I have presented at three previous PodCamps. […]
Trump Followers on PA Facebook Page I had originally planned to do a post looking at Facebook pages for candidates for Pennsylvania but recent events in the campaign have forced me to update the numbers I collected on Friday before the nasty video and debate occurred. Above is a graph showing the number of new […]
The video of my presentation at PodCamp can be seen on YouTube and here. The slides are presented below. Presenting statistics in social media from University of Pittsburgh **Related Posts** My Raging Chicken Press Interview Podcamp Session Feedback Part 2-The Video of My Session Has Been Posted
After a four year hiatus, I will be presenting at Podcamp Pittsburgh. For those of you who do not know PodCamp is a social media conference where practitioners share their tricks of the trade. It is on Saturday and Sunday, August 13 and 14 and will be held at Point Park University from 9 to […]
I was interviewed on a Pennsylvania progressive podcast called Raging Chicken Press on recent posts on this blog related to the election and the concentration of hate groups in Pennsylvania and the US. The audio podcast is above and the youtube video of it can be seen below. It was conducted at a coffee […]
FB Followers FB Engaged FB Eng Rate Twitter Following RCP Avg IOWA Bernie Sanders 19135 22212 1.16 4272 45.3% Hillary Clinton 16661 5918 0.36 21742 45.5% Martin O’Malley 5.0% I received a lot of comments on my post on the Twitter and Facebook primaries and the national polls. One of them said I did not […]
FB Followers Dec Engaged Dec Engagement rate Dec Gain in FB Followers Twitter followers RCP Poll Avgerage Dec Hillary Clinton 2,160,862 450,105 0.208 951,683 5,049,765 53.3% Bernie Sanders 2,296,730 425,935 0.185 1,071,178 1,105,792 32% Martin O’Malley 104,179 2,516 0.024 27,226 119.145 3.5% With only three data points in the Democratic race for President, there is […]
With the holiday season winding down the stretch run in Iowa and New Hampshire I thought I would take another look at how the candidates Facebook and Twitter followings associate with their Real Clear Politics (RCP) polling averages. There are 3 candidates left in the democrats and 12 left for the GOP. There were 13 […]
Get More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows The clip above from the Daily Show (the first on this blog with new host Trevor Noah) discusses how traditional journalism is being supplanted by computer algorithms that can create legible news articles from multiple sources on the web. In my field I have recently become acquainted with […]
In my last post I talked about how candidates Facebook followings predict their standing in the polls. I came across this graph about the number of fake Twitter followers the top candidates have. I decided to look at how the candidates followers on twitter correspond with their respective standing in the polls. The poll numbers […]
