November 17, 2012

Isn’t technology –ing wonderful?

A new website WTFlevel.com (SFW, but makes siren noises) does real-time monitoring of the intensity of swearing on Twitter (only in English, unfortunately).

The record level so far was on US election day, where nearly 11% of tweets contained language unsuitable for those of a delicate constitution, most commonly in combination with the words “Romney” “Obama”, “election”, “stupid”, “white”, and “black”.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »