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The largest spikes here are the Vegas shooting and the Sandy Hook school shooting. Basically every spike is some form of mass shooting in the US.
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At first, I went to aggregate the data by week, but there were too many shootings in the US to even aggregate by day, so I had to aggregate by hour to get a more accurate picture. This includes regional shootings, but spikes over 100 were mostly mass shootings. I had to remove ..
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.. the noise at the bottom (there were so many local shootings and it made the graph harder to read).
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The size of the line represents how many verified tweets during that particular hour were reporting or discussing the shooting. Keep in mind that verified tweets only make up a tiny fraction of all tweets.
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A look at some of the raw data (it shows hashtags and sorts by the largest days)
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