danieltomasz/mapping-twitter

Twitter Ego-Network

• Setup of Twitter credentials (developer acount): login to your twitter account and to http://apps.twitter.com/
• more about limitations https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/rate-limiting
• We will put scripts and notebooks to make this analysis reproducible
• We are using Pytjon and Tweepy to run analysis

What actually makes a tweet?

• text content
• entites (user mentions, hashtags, URLs, and media) and places

Getting started

Create config.py file where you will store your App keys Create .gitignore file and include config.py file there

Simple Visualization of the data

Visualization.ipynb in code/ invokes a simple scatter plot based on the number of shared followers. It uses Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for dimensionality reduction. You can play with the parameters and see what they do.

RESULTS

How often do Brainhackers retweet each other?

One expemplary visualization of the communication structure of the Brainhack Twitter network is here.

Example jupyter notebook

• https://github.com/mikhailklassen/Mining-the-Social-Web-3rd-Edition
• https://github.com/bonzanini/Book-SocialMediaMiningPython

Datasets

• NIPS circles http://snap.stanford.edu/data/egonets-Twitter.html
• HIGGS discovery http://snap.stanford.edu/data/higgs/web/twitter-higgs.html

Example apps

https://www.proporti.onl/

Example analysis

• https://perrystephenson.me/2018/09/29/the-r-twitter-network/
• https://towardsdatascience.com/@shahamfarooq
• https://towardsdatascience.com/information-flow-within-twitter-community-def9e939bb99
• https://towardsdatascience.com/information-flow-within-twitter-community-def9e939bb99

Task for tomorrow:

• Daniel: prepare data from json to gephi matrix