In Appendix A of the public report “Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice,” my coauthors and I promised to release our Twitter data publicly in 2017. The time has …
Continue readingSocial media collection tools: A curated list
A few months back I started a crowdsourced list of social media data collection tools. A few folks tweeted it today, which reminded me that I never posted it to my website. At the time I …
Continue readingComm depts.: Want to excel in computational methods? Do these four things.
Big Data. Computational social science. Data science. Analytics. These buzzwords are everywhere these days—business, government, the nonprofit sector, you name it—and the social sciences are no different. The question of what to do about the …
Continue readingCo-citation map of 9 comm journals, 2003-2013
[View the map. You’ll need an up-to-date browser with Javascript enabled.] In an effort to better understand the theoretical landscape of my chosen academic field, I have created a co-citation network visualization based on bibliographies found …
Continue readingT2G 0.3: Visualize only RTs or mentions in Gephi
I just completed a new version of the Python version of T2G which adds a few new features. Most prominent among these is the ability to extract only retweets or only mentions for visualization in …
Continue readingT2G: Convert (all) Twitter mentions to Gephi format
EDIT 07/10/13: A new version of T2G for Python has been posted here–it has options to extract only retweets or only mentions, among other new features. A few weeks ago I posted a spreadsheet that converted …
Continue readingTwitter geolocation and its limitations
A couple recent articles have gotten me thinking about methods for geolocating Twitter users: Kalev Leetaru et al.’s recent double-sized piece in First Monday explaining how to identify the locations of users in the absence …
Continue readingSpreadsheet converts tweets for social network analysis in Gephi
EDIT 05/15/13: I’ve posted two scripts, one in PHP and one in Python, that overcome the main limitation of this spreadsheet–they pull in all mentioned names rather than just the first one. Download one or both here. …
Continue readingWhat resonated with Obama’s and Romney’s Facebook followers?
As the nation waits to find out who our next president will be, I thought it would be interesting to take a quick look at how Obama’s and Romney’s Facebook followers reacted to content posted …
Continue readingArab Spring Twitter data now available (sort of)
Update 2/21/2012: As my colleague Alex Hanna recently informed me, up to 2% of the archives below may consist of duplicate tweet IDs. If you intend to work with this data, I highly recommend removing …
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