Research Associate, Network Analysis, Social Media and Programming
Considering the all-too-familiar with the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of contagion and something spreading from one person to the next, has been poorly understood until now. Adam Kucharski, a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, demonstrates how COVID-19 (as well as other epidemics) and viral social media … Read more
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 to annotate their tweets with labels that are likely to get picked up by other users. It’s also a convenient way to discover communities of … Read more
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 process of how to collect data from Twitter (Via Twint) using a few key terms. We then used regular expressions to extract the relevant parts … Read more