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A quick look at #march11 / #saudi tweets
Well, so much for that #march11 #Saudi day of rage. Whether it was really the "tempest in a teacup" that Prince Al-Waleed suggested on CNBC (video below, transcript here) or not, the oil complex and...
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Visual Summary of #jan25 Twitter Activity
Last year, I covered a number of the so-called “Twitter protests” in China (#cn220), Iran (#25bahman), and Algeria (#fev12). Since these protests began in January 2011, the Arab Spring has claimed...
View ArticleCharting Twitter time series data with tweet and unique user counts
Let’s say you’ve used my Python script to automate the download of a hashtag or search phrase from Twitter (in a Unicode safe way, unlike within R). Now let’s say you want to visualize the number of...
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Visualizing the #nonato Twitter hashtag – time series and top users
The NATO summit is currently being held in Chicago, and, as is typical for NATO or G# summits, the streets and tweets are full of dissent. In the spirit of my past investigations of online dissent...
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Grexit stage left: visualizing the online discussion around Greece’s possible...
While Tsipras and his Syriza coalition have been busy in Greek parliament, the Internet has been a-buzz with speculation that their platform will result in a Greek exit from the Euro currency. This...
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Dataset: Tweets from the Chinese Protests #cn220
Earlier this week, I posted a ~100k tweet dataset on the #25bahman protests in Iran. The corresponding figure of frequencies showed a strong presence on Twitter, with over 500 tweets per 5 minute...
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Tracking the Frequency of Twitter Hashtags with R
I’ve posted three examples of Twitter hashtags datasets in the last week: one on China, one on Iran, and one on Algeria. In order to build these datasets, I needed to obtain older tweets; this is...
View ArticlePlotting 3D Graphs with Python, igraph, and Cairo: #cn220 Example
Out of all the visuals I’ve produced, I think the "coolest" is the three-dimensional U.S. Supreme Court citation network 1080p movie I produced with Dan Katz (close friend, coauthor, and newly minted...
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Dataset: Wisconsin Union Protester Tweets #wiunion
I’ve been playing with Twitter data over the last week, archiving Algerian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Chinese tweets. I thought I’d bring the story a little closer to home this time by archiving...
View ArticleArchiving Tweets with Python
Last week, I posted some R code that downloads the user and timestamp of tweets that contain a given hashtag going back as far as Twitter search will allow. As I noted in the post, the text of these...
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A quick look at #march11 / #saudi tweets
Well, so much for that #march11 #Saudi day of rage. Whether it was really the "tempest in a teacup" that Prince Al-Waleed suggested on CNBC (video below, transcript here) or not, the oil complex and...
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Visual Summary of #jan25 Twitter Activity
Last year, I covered a number of the so-called “Twitter protests” in China (#cn220), Iran (#25bahman), and Algeria (#fev12). Since these protests began in January 2011, the Arab Spring has claimed...
View ArticleCharting Twitter time series data with tweet and unique user counts
Let’s say you’ve used my Python script to automate the download of a hashtag or search phrase from Twitter (in a Unicode safe way, unlike within R). Now let’s say you want to visualize the number of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Visualizing the #nonato Twitter hashtag – time series and top users
The NATO summit is currently being held in Chicago, and, as is typical for NATO or G# summits, the streets and tweets are full of dissent. In the spirit of my past investigations of online dissent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Grexit stage left: visualizing the online discussion around Greece’s possible...
While Tsipras and his Syriza coalition have been busy in Greek parliament, the Internet has been a-buzz with speculation that their platform will result in a Greek exit from the Euro currency. This...
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