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 […]
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How to Stream Tweets using the Twitter API
EDIT (Feb 2023): As of 09/02/2023, Twitter is closing down public access to the API and replacing it with a paid service. Collecting tweets from Twitter can be done in a number of different ways. In a previous blog post, we showed how to extract social network interactions using TWINT – a Python package for […]
How to Create Twitter API Keys in 2022: A Simple Guide
EDIT (Feb 2023): As of 09/02/2023, Twitter is closing down public access to the API and replacing it with a paid service. Many data science projects involve interacting with an API in order to scrape data which can be used for analysis. From an academic perspective, Twitter is a popular platform for understanding people’s options […]
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Essential Python Packages for the Web Scraping Toolbox in 2022
Python is known for being able to do many different things due to the versatility of the programming language. One thing Python is particularly well-known for is its ability to receive data over the Web using the requests package (more information can be found here). The requests package enables users to perform basic HTTP requests […]
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How to Visualise and Draw Networks in Python
So far in this series, we’ve gone through everything from creating a graph to analysing it. We have yet to visualise networks. To conclude this series, this blog post sets out to walk through the process of visualising networks using tools packaged into networkx Layouts Before we draw the graph, we need to define a […]
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Finding and Analysing Important Links
Links are incredibly valuable for studying relationships in complex networks. Depending on the structure of the network, links can be analysed to evaluate important connections such as bridges and weak ties . Link analysis can be used to allude to significant connections between an interesting set of nodes. Link analysis has many applications ranging from […]