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Exploring signed networks in Mastodon

rstats
networks
rtoot
mastodon
signed networks
SNA

An approach to empirically observe online signed networks, using Mastodon instance log data.

Mastodon Conversation Networks

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networks
mastodon
rtoot

Demonstration of how to use rtoot to collect conversation threads and construct networks

Changes to APIs: Mapping the implications in data collection using the VOSON Lab suite of tools

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Twitter
Reddit
API
vosonSML
VOSONDash
voson.tcn

Addressing what we know about the changes, what we can currently do with the VOSON Lab tools and future developments.

Semantic network analysis with website text

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tidytext
quanteda
text analysis
visualisation
semantic networks
frame analysis
data sovereignty

How to construct semantic networks, based on word co-occurrence, using text extracted from websites.

Analysis of website text content using quanteda

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rvest
quanteda
text analysis
visualisation
word cloud
comparison cloud
data sovereignty

Introduction to basic text analysis using the quanteda package, in the context of organisational website content.

Hyperlink networks and website text content

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rvest
tidytext
hyperlink networks
vosonsml
text analysis
visualisation
word cloud
comparison cloud
data sovereignty

Conducting basic text analysis (frequency counts, word clouds, comparison clouds) of organisational website text content.

Hyperlink networks: data pre-processing techniques

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hyperlink networks
vosonsml

Steps for collecting hyperlink networks with vosonSML and processing hyperlink data using R tools.

Egocentric Networks from Twitter timelines

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twitter
networks
egocentric
rtweet
vosonsml
timeline

Demonstration of how to use rtweet and vosonSML to construct an ego net from Twitter users timelines.

Collecting YouTube comments with VOSONDash

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SNA
VOSONDash
networks
YouTube
visualisation

Collect YouTube comments and create networks for analysis with VOSONDash

Collecting Twitter data with VOSONDash

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SNA
VOSONDash
networks
twitter
visualisation

A short guide to collecting Twitter data and constructing networks for analysis with VOSONDash.

Testing the bot status of users in Twitter networks collected via vosonSML

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python
SNA
vosonSML
networks
Botometer
bot detection

We use vosonSML to collect Twitter data and then use Botometer to test the bot status of a subset of Twitter users.

Exploring issues in Reddit using VOSON Dash

rstats
SNA
VOSONDash
networks
text analysis
Reddit

An easy guide to explore issues in Redddit and construct networks for analysis using VOSONDash.

Analysing online networks with VOSONDash

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SNA
VOSONDash
networks
text analysis
visualisation

A quick introduction to VOSONDash network and text analysis features

#DebateNight 2020: Hashtag Twitter Collection of the US Presidential Debates

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twitter
hashtags
networks
election
debate

Methodology for the bulk collection of tweets containing key hashtags for the US Presidential Debates and generation of Networks for Analysis.

Twitter Conversation Networks

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twitter
conversations
voson.tcn
networks

Getting started with the voson.tcn package.

Hyperlink Networks with vosonSML

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hyperlinks
vosonSML
networks

An introduction to creating hyperlink networks with vosonSML.

Creating Twitter Networks with vosonSML using rtweet Data

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twitter
vosonSML
rtweet
networks

Simple guide to collecting data with rtweet and generating networks with vosonSML.

Welcome to the VOSON Lab Code Blog

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SNA
Computational Social Science

The code blog is a space to share tools, methods, tips, examples and code. A place to collect data, construct and analyze online networks.

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