Armchair Activism and an Equals Sign
Armchair Activism and an Equals Sign Undoubtedly, if you are a Facebook user you have been witness to a lot of profile picture changes within the last few weeks. Specifically, around March 26 when the Human Rights Campaign challenged their followers to change their profile pictures to one of the image below (the far left is most popular, and the latter two were for giggles). In an article posted on the Fast Company website, an overview is given to some of the analysis that the Facebook Data Science Team cooked up. You can find it here. Whats especially interesting about this event is how its given researchers some significant insights into activism and how different demographics respond. The team observed that 120% more users (than the previous Tuesday) changed their profile picture over the course of a day. As you can see below, after applying a time-series model, the data shows a very obvious, positive trend. The team used the changes to indicate the "s...