Gun Control Positions in New York

The above visualization was made in ArcMap and shows the spatial distribution of the tweets that were collected that support gun control or gun rights. There are two circles with dots in the middle, one is red and one is blue. These represent the mean center of the tweets collected for each respective collection. The red circle shows that the majority of the tweets that support gun rights come from the South, while the blue dot shows that the majority of the tweets that support gun control come from the Northern areas of United States. If you zoom out more, the standard deviational ellipses for each collection can be viewed. Both ellipses reinforce the spatial distributions shown by the mean centers of each collection. The red ellipse shows that the people who support gun rights are most likely to live in Southern United States and the blue ellipse shows those in support of gun control are most likely to live in Northern areas of the United States and potentially Canada.