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21 Nov 09
But the real tour de force of Drew’s talk was a live demonstration of social network analysis based on Twitter data. Drew asked audience members to Tweet from their smartphones using the hashtag #DrewSNA, and then ran an R script to interface with the Twitter API to download the tweets with that tag and the follow relationships between the audience members who posted them. Here’s the chart he produced about 5 seconds after running the script: (via Revolutions: Social Network Analysis on demand )

But the real tour de force of Drew’s talk was a live demonstration of social network analysis based on Twitter data. Drew asked audience members to Tweet from their smartphones using the hashtag #DrewSNA, and then ran an R script to interface with the Twitter API to download the tweets with that tag and the follow relationships between the audience members who posted them. Here’s the chart he produced about 5 seconds after running the script: (via Revolutions: Social Network Analysis on demand

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