Tag: Text mining

• Two faces of the constituency

  

  How often do MPs name the towns and villages they represent? On Facebook, 42 times per 100 posts. In the Commons, 9 times per 100 contributions. The same MPs, the same places, 2017 to 2020.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, elections, Facebook, Hansard, Parliament, political parties, Present day, Text mining, UK

• Which places get Parliament’s attention?

  

  A century of Hansard and 1,596 UK towns. London took 49% of the Commons’ town mentions in the 1910s and 18% in the 2010s, yet where a place stands is still mostly about the place itself.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Hansard, London, Parliament, Present day, Public attention, Text mining, Twentieth century, UK

• Who gets talked about? What the public looks up on Wikipedia, and what Parliament talks about

  

  I set a year of Wikipedia reading against twenty-one years of Commons debate for 1,425 UK towns and cities. The two mostly agree, but a town with a seat named after it gets 2.2 times the mentions, and Welsh places are talked about more, not less.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Hansard, Parliament, Present day, Public attention, technology, Text mining, UK, Wikipedia

• Ginnel, snicket or twitten? Britain’s alley words on the street signs

  

  I mapped all 3,382 named alleys in the UK by the word in their name. 88% of twittens are in Sussex, every chare is in the North East, and London’s 375 named alleys use a regional word just 2 times.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Dialect, language and dialect, OpenStreetMap, Present day, Scotland, Street names, Text mining, UK

• How fast did news travel? Lincoln, Custer, the Titanic and Pearl Harbor in America’s newspapers

  

  I followed four great stories through 13,233 digitised issues of 936 American newspapers. A daily printed Lincoln’s death the next morning, just as fast as the Titanic or Pearl Harbor. What held news back was the weekly press day.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Americas, history, Science and technology, technology, Text mining, Twentieth century, Victorian, world maps