A measure of the total expressed fear and outrage from newspaper tabloids in Britain benchmarked against their more moderate counterparts. A predictive candidate for the exact date of the impending Mayan Armageddon.
This graph uses trends which have been calculated by looking at the front page of each associated news website and deriving a hysteria metric, as well as an average value for each outlet.
mycolors = [ 0.0 0.0 0.5;
0.0 0.0 1.0;
0.0 0.5 1.0;
0.0 1.0 1.0;
0.3 0.8 0.5;
0.9 0.9 0.0;
1.0 0.5 0.0;
1.0 0.0 0.0;
0.5 0.0 0.0 ];
set(gca, 'ColorOrder', mycolors);
hold all
h = zeros(1,9);
% Hysteria: The Telegraph
% time vector is: time1363
% data vector is: data1363
h(1) = plot(time1363(end-13:end),data1363(end-13:end), 'x-','LineWidth',2);
% Hysteria: The Guardian
% time vector is: time1362
% data vector is: data1362
h(2) = plot(time1362(end-13:end),data1362(end-13:end), 'o-','LineWidth',2);
% Hysteria: The Independent
% time vector is: time1361
% data vector is: data1361
h(3) = plot(time1361(end-13:end),data1361(end-13:end), 'x-','LineWidth',2);
% Hysteria: The Daily Star
% time vector is: time1360
% data vector is: data1360
h(4) = plot(time1360(end-13:end),data1360(end-13:end), 'o-','LineWidth',2);
% Hysteria: Hysteria: BBC News
% time vector is: time1359
% data vector is: data1359
h(5) = plot(time1359(end-13:end),data1359(end-13:end), 'o-','LineWidth',2);
% Hysteria: The Mirror
% time vector is: time1358
% data vector is: data1358
h(6) = plot(time1358(end-13:end),data1358(end-13:end), 'o-','LineWidth',2);
% Hysteria: The Sun
% time vector is: time1357
% data vector is: data1357
h(7) = plot(time1357(end-13:end),data1357(end-13:end), 'o-','LineWidth',2);
% Hysteria: The Daily Mail
% time vector is: time1356
% data vector is: data1356
h(8) = plot(time1356(end-13:end),data1356(end-13:end), 'o-','LineWidth',2);
% Hysteria: The Times
% time vector is: time1427
% data vector is: data1427
h(9) = plot(time1427(end-13:end),data1427(end-13:end), 'o-','LineWidth',2);
labels = {sprintf('Telegraph (av: %0.2f)', mean(data1363)), ...
sprintf('Guardian (av: %0.2f)', mean(data1362)), ...
sprintf('Independent (av: %0.2f)', mean(data1361)), ...
sprintf('Daily Star (av: %0.2f)', mean(data1360)), ...
sprintf('BBC News (av: %0.2f)', mean(data1359)), ...
sprintf('Mirror (av: %0.2f)', mean(data1358)), ...
sprintf('Sun (av: %0.2f)', mean(data1357)), ...
sprintf('Daily Mail (av: %0.2f)', mean(data1356)), ...
sprintf('Times (av: %0.2f)', mean(data1427)), ...
};
data = {data1363 data1362 data1361 data1360 data1359 data1358 data1357 data1356 data1427};
ymax = max(cellfun(@max, data));
colmeans = cellfun(@mean, data);
[~, I] = sort(colmeans, 'descend');
legend(h(I), labels(I), 'Location', 'NorthWest');
title('The Hysteriometer')
ylabel('''Hysteresis''')
xlabel('Time')
ylim([0 1.4*ymax])
xlim([time1356(end-13) time1356(end)])
datetick('x', 'd')
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Created 12 Feb 2012 by Hugo Carr
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1 comment
This plot got mentioned in The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/diary/diary-from-armenia-to-newcastle-and-back-again-6612085.html (see under "Calm down, dears")