Research Associate, Network Analysis, Social Media and Programming
It’s fair to say that I don’t follow many sports. I’m more of a casual observer myself and would much rather watch something like the Tour de France or a rugby match now and then. That being said, I recently came across a post on my Mastodon feed about using Gephi to visualise the relationship … Read more
I’m still relatively new to Mastodon and, so far, I love it. Ever since Twitter started going down hill (for reasons which I won’t cover yet again) I have used Mastodon as my go-to microblogging platform of choice. I’ve been on Mastodon for a couple of months now, and I’m on the lookout for new … 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
Over the past few months, Mastodon, the Federated microblogging alternative to Twitter, has gained a lot of attraction in light of the events going on surrounding Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Upon further inspection, it turns out most instances have a public facing REST API for allowing users to interact with their services using third-party … 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 a separate blog post, we covered the basics for learning how to stream tweets from Twitter using Python. This is ideal if you are interested in collecting tweets in real-time as and … Read more