New York Times Readers' Reactions to Bin Laden's Death by Gender and Nationality
The New York Times posted an interactive graph that allowed visitors to plot their feelings on Osama bin Laden’s death with one axis going from “Negative” to “Positive,” and one from “Insignificant” to “Significant.”
Dan Nguyen put the 13,000 responses the Times received through a partway scientific analysis. His methodology:
I used Google Refine to quickly sort out the geographic locations (which varied from zip codes, to city/state, to neighborhoods, such as “Upper East Side”). Gender was not a checkbox in the NYT’s form, so I used Refine to sort based on first names.
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