I recently wanted to a CSV of questions and answers in to a Twitter account that tweeted questions followed by the correct answers every hour like so: My CSV looks like this when opened in excel. There are 5 columns in each row, the first of which is the question, Read more…
Exploring your social media networks with Graphing tools such as Gephi is quite easy, the hardest part is working out what you want to explore and how you will get the data. As a starting point I’ve collected a few simple recipes for network graphs. I’ve done all these on Read more…
Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic currently responsible for the production of the video series Tropes vs Women in Video Games where she presents commentary and analysis about gender representation. This Tumblr blog post of hers features a small collection of some of the tweets directed to her on an Read more…
I’ve been playing with the Twitter API to see how easy it is to take stats about event backchat on Twitter. While playing with the API I noticed it was very easy to get data out which at first made me wonder why anybody even bothers with Twubs style tools, Read more…
Recently I have been playing with the Twitter API, to get my head around how it works and what is/isn’t possible. Just to get my head going I have been looking at the ways in which UK Universities pimp themselves on Twitter. I haven’t really thought through my dataset or Read more…
Those of you who use Reddit will know about Ask Me Anything (AMA). The premise is simple; somebody gives up an hour or so of their time to answer questions. The questions don’t have to be about anything particular but the host usually has something they want to promote, which Read more…
