{"id":4731,"date":"2014-10-31T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/10\/31\/democrats-and-republicans-both-support-metallica\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T13:34:08","slug":"democrats-and-republicans-both-support-metallica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/10\/31\/democrats-and-republicans-both-support-metallica\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats and Republicans both support Metallica!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4f\/Metallica_London_2008-09-15_James_smiling.jpg\/640px-Metallica_London_2008-09-15_James_smiling.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"328\" \/><br \/>With the 2014 midterm elections approaching, Facebook decided to take a look  at the cultural similarities and differences between people who support  Democrats and people who support Republicans. To do this, they looked at  everyone who liked the campaign page of any Democrat or Republican  running for governor, U.S. Senate or U.S. House of Representatives. They  then looked at what other pages those people liked on Facebook and  identified the pages that were most <em>differentiating<\/em>\u2014that is, the  pages which were disproportionately liked by the supporters of one party  versus the other\u2014and those that were most <em>balanced<\/em>.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Note:  in the figure below, the more a page is disproportionately  liked by fans of Republican candidates, the farther right the page name  appears (precisely indicated by the darker line in the middle).  Conversely, the more a page is disproportionately liked by fans of  Democratic candidates, the farther left the page name appears. The font  size of the name is proportional to the total number of people from the  US who liked that page.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xpf1\/v\/t1.0-9\/s720x720\/10473771_10152782319438415_8092163925589702720_n.png?oh=1faaa80121ccc854e9fa9136308d63e5&amp;oe=54EEA376\" border=\"0\" width=\"708\" height=\"354\" \/><br \/><em>This figure shows the top 20 bands disproportionately liked by Democrats and Republicans and the top 20 bands that bridge the divide. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Facebook Data Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2014 midterm elections approaching, Facebook decided to take a look at the cultural&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}