Author: James Ashford
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How to Collect Data From Reddit – Introducing PRAW
If you’re a nerd like me, you’ll probably be very familiar with Reddit . Reddit describes itself as “the front page of the internet” which is certainly true for me…
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Building Hashtag Co-occurrence Networks from Tweets
EDIT (Feb 2023): As of 09/02/2023, Twitter is closing down public access to the API and replacing it with a paid service. Hashtags provide a meaningful way to allow users…
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Interaction Networks of #COVID19 and “Delta variant” on Twitter
EDIT (Feb 2023): As of 09/02/2023, Twitter is closing down public access to the API and replacing it with a paid service. In the previous post, we went through the…
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Using Lockdown to your Advantage
So with the rather rapid increase of COVID-19 infections as of recent, it looks like we could be heading towards another lockdown in the form of a ‘circuit breaker’ –…
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Fun with Forwarding and SSH Tunnelling
Linux (and all UNIX-based systems for that matter) is a pretty well thought out operating system with tones of useful features. I use either macOS or Linux every day for…
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A Weekend That Changed My Life
Every now and then we all have those long holiday weekends that we look back on that are distinguished above all others. This weekend was no exception. Like many holidays,…
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Raspberry Pi Backup Server
So I recently reached the limits on my free 2GB Basic Dropbox (it’s not much, I know) and I’ve always wanted to find my own way of syncing and backing…
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Let the Research Begin
For those of you who have paid close attention to my life recently will know that I have just started my PhD. I’m very much excited to get things going…
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I’m going to be a Ph.D student!
As the title suggests, as of October 2018 (this year) I will become a student. This is something in life I never thought I would ever achieve, but nevertheless, it…