Guest workshop at

'Politics, Media, and Communication' course

Network Analysis of Twitter in Gephi

University of Amsterdam / 3 March 2020

Diliara Valeeva

What is the network?

Political blogs

Adamic & Glance (2005)

Racial segregation in school

Moody (2001)

Kilpatrick & Randolph (2012)

Airline network

Plan for today

1. Visualization

2. Key actors

3. Communities

Twitter data

#biden2020

#bloomberg2020

#buttigieg2020

#gabbard2020

#klobuchar2020

#sanders2020

#steyer2020

#warren2020

#trump2020

#weld2020

#biden2020

#bloomberg2020

#buttigieg2020

#gabbard2020

#klobuchar2020

#sanders2020

#steyer2020

#warren2020

#trump2020

#weld2020

node: user

edge: retweet

hashtag

How is 2020 US presidency

discussion network structured?

Gephi

Download data and tutorial

Find on Canvas or

at http://bit.ly/TwitterGephi

Title Text

By SlvrKy - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50571810

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for network statistics

for data import/export

for adjusting visualization

Tutorial

Image source:  https://medium.com/the-xplane-collection/anatomy-of-a-social-network-de73f1224ac5

Indegree: number of incoming ties

Outdegree: number of outcoming ties

Degree: sum of indegree and outdegree

• Modularity detects network communities
• Nodes in one community are densely connected
• High modularity: dense intra-community, sparse inter-community ties

democrats

Trump

influencers

news

mixed

What we did

1. Visualization

2. Key actors

3. Communities