I’ve been collecting tweets around political events since the beginning of the year. I threw them all together into a single dataset recently (I originally posted this on the 18th July 2016). Here’s a summary of the main communities identified when it comes to SA politics. This covers about 1.5m …
A fun exploration of Pokemon Go via Google Trends quickly took a turn for the depressing the other day (I originally posted this on th 18th July 2016). Initially, we struggled to find a term more popular than “Pokemon Go” initially until we struck upon “jobs”: However, even jobs couldn’t …
Stats SA has upped their game with great analyses like this entropy-based one looking at the distribution of races spatial inequality in our largest cities. This graph shows the most segregated cities in South Africa. Contrary to popular belief, Cape Town is the third most segregated city after eThekwini and Nelson Mandela …
This infographic by the Mail & Guardian is very encouraging. It shows a dramatic rise in black graduates with degrees, contradicting recent reporting to the contrary. [Source]
Apparently we have 11 service delivery protests a day across the country. An overwhelming majority – 82% – are peaceful but we do have many that turn violent according to this Mail & Guardian article. Here’s a pie chart to help you visualise that 🙂 [PLEASE NOTE: I originally shared this …
I collected tweets mentioning each of the three major parties’ election manifesto launches. This chart simply compares the volumes generated by each manifesto launch. The EFF led the way, followed by the DA and finally the ANC in third place. [PLEASE NOTE: I originally shared this post on the 6 …
Here’s a network of all the conversations happening around the Constitutional Court’s Nkandla ruling. It’s based on the 84k tweets I’ve collected since this morning. The main communities that were discussing it are: DA (8.4% of users, 9.0% of tweets) News commentators incl. Ranjeni Munsamy & Stephen Grootes (5.9% of users, 9.7% …
