I have kept up my record keeping on the political parties facebook pages, which I have taken once every 3 days(to reduce errors at the particular time I have taken them) and here are my results graphically so far.
As can be seen, the Liberal Democrats have made a huge surge after the tv debates started (15/4/10) and the momentum didn't stop after the 2nd debate (22/4/10) though it has slowred, despite the stronger performances of Gordon and David. The other parties growth has been much more linear in comparison, which suggests they haven't had much in the way of a push from the tv debates amongst facebook users. There is still plenty of time before we vote, can any more information be suggested by the medium of facebook?
In addition I have recently discovererd Facebook has a prejudice against the Labour party. To find the data for the above graph I have to search for each party using the search bar. Usually they pop up as a suggestion before the whole party's name is inputted, but recently the Labour party has stopped appearing altogether, even when the whole title is inputted, which means you have to follow through to the main search page before it can be accessed. However, whether this is intentional, something to do with my personal settings or something behind the search algorithms I am unsure. All I know is it only occurs for Labour.
I should have labelled my axis, but oh well! The y axis shows the total number of people in the group and the axis represents the date in time.
ReplyDeleteTsk! Both your maths and geography training should have stopped you forgetting to label them! :P
ReplyDeleteAlso, no time left until I vote - my envelope is sealed :P