Research Associate, Network Analysis, Social Media and Programming
As I’ve mentioned in many of my blog posts before this one, Mastodon has a publicly available API which can be used to scrape statuses, collect hashtags and much more. One feature that I have yet to mention in this blog is the ability to stream statuses as Mastodon features a streaming API for processing … Read more
Like most data scientists and researchers, I spend most of my day in front of a computer. Most of the time, I’m either writing, reading or coding something exciting up. Over the past couple of years as a researcher / academic / data scientist, I’ve come to use a lot of software. Some fancy, others … Read more
In a previous post, I walked through the basics on how to import a network into Gephi using a spreadsheet. As shown, this is an easy way to import data into Gephi in the form of a list of edges. As mentioned before, this method is also ideal if you’re working with external sources (e.g. … Read more
Gephi, is an amazing piece of software for building and visualising different types of network. It is considered the go-to software for network analytics and visualisation and is widely used by those who study social networks, such as myself. I use Gephi almost on a daily basis. As well as producing some amazing visuals, Gephi … Read more
There is an abundance of freely available datasets on the internet for pretty much anything and everything you can think of. In a previous blog post, we covered five different platforms for finding useful datasets. However, as mentioned in the post, there are times when you may need to collect data where it may be … Read more