While Tsipras and his Syriza coalition have been busy in Greek parliament, the Internet has been a-buzz with speculation that their platform will result in a Greek exit from the Euro currency. This prospect, affectionately dubbed “Grexit” by Citi… Read more ›
Last year, I covered a number of the so-called “Twitter protests” in China (#cn220), Iran (#25bahman), and Algeria (#fev12). Since these protests began in January 2011, the Arab Spring has claimed many members of both ruling and revolting groups … Continue reading →
tl;dr See this movie visualization for a case study on how a post propagates through Quora. How does information spread through a network? Much of Quora’s appeal, after all, lies in its social graph — and when you’ve got a network of users, all broadcasting their activities to their neighbors, information can cascade in multiple 
After recently discovering the excellent methods section on mappingonlinepublics.net, I decided it was time to document my own approach to Twitter data. I’ve been messing around with R and igraph for a while, but it wasn’t until I discovered Gephi that things really moved forward. R/igraph are great for preprocessing the data (not sure how
I want to share my experience in generating the data for social network analysis using R and analyzing it using Gephi... WHICH DATA STRUCTURE TO USE FOR LARGE GRAPHS?I quickly realized that using edge lists and adjacency matrix gets difficult as the g...
After learning the basics of R, I decided to learn something harder last week. I picked Social Network Analysis (SNA) to learn the concepts of SNA and R. My primary interest in SNA is visual exploration of networks, so I needed to find a tool first.&n...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
