Spurious Scottish Independence Maps

In a piffling over 2 weeks, on the 18th September, the citizens of Scotland volition overstep away the polls to vote on whether Scotland should larn an independent country.

Portland Communications has been analyzing social media conversations unopen to the fence of whether Scotland should larn independent. This analysis has focused on a number of Twitter hashtags; #indyref, #YesScotland in addition to #VoteYes (the Yes campaign’s master copy hashtags), & #BetterTogether in addition to #NoThanks (the No side’s hashtags).

The Scottish Independence Debate on Twitter includes 2 maps which await at the geographical distribution of these Tweets. One of these maps is a straight off most obligatory CartoDB Torque library animated map of Tweets. This map animates through the geo-located Twitter messages (containing the inwards a higher house hastags) from 17th July 2014 to 15th August 2014.

As amongst most of these animated Twitter maps it is hard to larn inwards at whatever conclusions from this map, apart from a lot of people work Twitter. One interesting spike inwards the information does reach off on the fifth August, afterward the start televised fence on the issue.

The other map visualizes the density of Tweets amongst the researched hashtags. The map uses dissimilar colored markers to present those Tweets inwards favor of independence in addition to those against. Again it would endure extremely hard to conclude anything from this map equally Twitter is in all likelihood non the best house to acquit a illustration poll of the voting population inwards Scotland.


UsvsTh3m stimulate got created their ain poll on the inquiry of whether Scotland should larn independent in addition to stimulate got mapped the results. Respondents are asked to larn inwards the start travel of their postcode in addition to answer the inquiry 'Should Scotland endure an independent country?'.

Again this map should endure taken amongst a pinch of tabular array salt equally it is a hugely non-representative sample of the British public. However the map does present an interesting clear north/south separate inwards the UK, suggesting the farther yous alive from Scotland in addition to then the to a greater extent than yous are probable to endure against its independence. Except if yous alive inwards Wales, in addition to then yous are to a greater extent than probable to endure favor of Scotland becoming independent.