Company
Date Published
Aug. 22, 2024
Author
CARTO Contributors
Word count
1011
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

This Map Shows Attendance of Over 1,000 US Protests in 2017`: Count Love is an open-source tool that collects, visualizes, and shares protest data nationwide. It started collecting data on January 21, 2017, with the Women's March, and has since aggregated data from over 1,000 protests. The platform uses a web crawler and text extractor to scan local newspapers and TV stations for keywords related to protests. Count Love addresses challenges in data accuracy by using conservative crowd size estimates. A mobile app allows individuals to register their attendance at specific events, providing anonymized protest data. The platform has discovered surprising insights into the activities, attitudes, and values of protesters, including geographic and temporal trends. By working with a data agnostic platform like CARTO, users can easily visualize and explore protest data.