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
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
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