2023 Florida Legislature and Twitter Use

2023 Florida Legislature and Twitter Use

Methodology Given a specified time interval (March 5 – May 7 or Florida Session’ sine die whichever is later) and a list of Twitter handles, the algorithm assigns a tailored weighting to variables including tweets, retweets replies, follower count, following count,...
2023 Florida Legislature and Twitter Use

The @Award and Twitter’s API

It was fun while it lasted, but our Florida Legislature Tweet Tracker is coming to an end. With one week left in the regular session of Florida’s legislature, Ozean was notified that Twitter has made changes to its API that have drastically restricted...
Florida 2022 Election for Governor: Geographic Divide

Florida 2022 Election for Governor: Geographic Divide

The results by precinct results have been released for Florida.  Precincts are the smallest unit of analysis that we have election results, and I find them interesting. So what does the data tell us? In this post, we will only explore the results for Governor’s race...
Blog Challenge:  Regulators and Authority

Blog Challenge: Regulators and Authority

The question asked is “What will it take for federal regulators to actually exercise their authority? (e.g. DoJ & Antitrust, SEC & insider trading, EPA & fracking/pipelines)?” Ahhhh, regulators.  One the most boring, yet critical functions...