What happened in the UK General Election? How did the media cover it on twitter? What are the general dataviz lessons? These slides were shown at Visualized:Political Data on May 21 2015

1. The UK General Election:
the media, twitter, and
lessons for the US
Andy Cotgreave
Technical Evangelist,Tableau
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Andy Cotgreave
Technical Evangelist,Tableau
@acotgreave

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Andy Cotgreave
Technical 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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TV: BBC

11. The players

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Labour and Ed Miliband

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Labour and Ed Miliband

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18. The Result
1 8
331
232
56

19. Discoveries

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