Posts Tagged ‘ sna ’

igraph and SNA: an amateur’s dabbling

June 29, 2012
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igraph and SNA: an amateur’s dabbling

I’ve been playing with the igraph package a bit lately (see previous post HERE) and wanted to approach a problem I once visited in the past. The basic gist of the problem is this: Students in a class are asked … Continue reading

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Graphing Twitter friends/followers with R (updated yet again)

December 22, 2011
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Those of you following my occasional updates here know that I have previously posted code for graphing Twitter friend/follower networks using R (post #1. post #2). Kai Heinrich was kind enough to send me some updated code for doing so using a newer version of the extremely useful twitteR package. His very crisp, yet thoroughly

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SNA: Visualising an email box with R

August 10, 2011
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SNA: Visualising an email box with R

Are statistics sexy? Visualising social networks certainly is! I wrote a little function, which makes producing beautiful plots depicting a mailbox with R an extremely easy task. I find visualisations of ‘social graphs’ particularly appealing. They look like flowers. I … Continue reading

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Generating graphs of retweets and @-messages on Twitter using R and Gephi

October 17, 2010
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Generating graphs of retweets and @-messages on Twitter using R and Gephi

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

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