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      <title>Exploring signed networks in Mastodon</title>
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      <title>Changes to APIs: Mapping the implications in data collection using the VOSON Lab suite of tools</title>
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      <dc:creator>Bryan Gertzel</dc:creator>
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      <dc:creator>Francisca Borquez</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Sidiq Madya</dc:creator>
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      <dc:creator>Francisca Borquez</dc:creator>
      <link>https://vosonlab.github.io/posts/2023-04-13-website-text-analysis-with-quanteda</link>
      <description>Introduction to basic text analysis using the quanteda package, in the context of organisational website content.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Robert Ackland</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Sidiq Madya</dc:creator>
      <link>https://vosonlab.github.io/posts/2023-02-23-hyperlink-networks-and-website-text-content</link>
      <description>Conducting basic text analysis (frequency counts, word clouds, comparison clouds) of organisational website text content.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Robert Ackland</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Sidiq Madya</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Francisca Borquez</dc:creator>
      <link>https://vosonlab.github.io/posts/2023-01-20-hyperlink-networks-pre-processing</link>
      <description>Steps for collecting hyperlink networks with vosonSML and processing hyperlink data using R tools.</description>
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      <title>Egocentric Networks from Twitter timelines</title>
      <dc:creator>Bryan Gertzel</dc:creator>
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      <description>Demonstration of how to use rtweet and vosonSML to construct an ego net from Twitter users timelines.</description>
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      <title>Collecting YouTube comments with VOSONDash</title>
      <dc:creator>Francisca Borquez</dc:creator>
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      <description>Collect YouTube comments and create networks for analysis with VOSONDash</description>
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      <dc:creator>Francisca Borquez</dc:creator>
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      <description>A short guide to collecting Twitter data and constructing networks for analysis with VOSONDash.</description>
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      <title>Testing the bot status of users in Twitter networks collected via vosonSML</title>
      <dc:creator>Robert Ackland</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Francisca Borquez</dc:creator>
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      <dc:creator>Francisca Borquez</dc:creator>
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      <description>A quick introduction to VOSONDash network and text analysis features</description>
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      <description>Methodology for the bulk collection of tweets containing key hashtags for the US Presidential Debates and generation of Networks for Analysis.</description>
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      <description>Getting started with the voson.tcn package.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Bryan Gertzel</dc:creator>
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      <description>An introduction to creating hyperlink networks with vosonSML.</description>
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      <dc:creator>Bryan Gertzel</dc:creator>
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      <description>Simple guide to collecting data with rtweet and generating networks with vosonSML.</description>
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      <title>Welcome to the VOSON Lab Code Blog</title>
      <dc:creator>Robert Ackland</dc:creator>
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      <description>The code blog is a space to share tools, methods, tips, examples and code. A place to collect data, construct and analyze online networks.</description>
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