Research Associate, Network Analysis, Social Media and Programming
In my job as a data analyst, I come across many different types of problems to solve. Some are relatively easy to solve, others not so much. That was until recently, where I came across a problem I have never given much thought before. That was until now. What is the problem? Finding multiple peaks … Read more
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
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
Your social network is bigger than you think! I remember what got me really interested in social network analysis as a field of academic study was just the scale at which these networks grow. Whether we are looking at how people talk with others or share things with other people, these interactions can grow to … Read more
In a separate blog post, I covered the basis for understanding how self-organising maps (SOM) work. This included what a SOM is, why SOM’s are useful and how they work – including the training algorithm. In this blog post, we’ll go through how we can build a simple SOM neural network of our own using … Read more