Joining the Dots Twitter analysis

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Analysis of Twitter activity at the Joining the Dots visualisation symposium
Author

Luke Zappia

Published

August 18, 2017

Today I attended the Joining the Dots visualisation symposium. You can see the slides for my talk about clustering trees here. It was a great event and hope we see more meetings like this in the future. Here is an analysis of the Twitter activity on the #jtdwehi hashtag, thanks to code from Neil Saunders. You can see it on Github.

Introduction

An analysis of tweets from the Joining the Dots symposium. 1237 tweets were collected using the rtweet R package:

jtdwehi <- search_tweets("#jtdwehi", 10000)
saveRDS(jtdwehi, "data/jtdwehi.Rds")

Search all the hashtags!

Timeline

Tweets by day

Tweets by day and time

Filtered for dates July 21-26, Prague time.

Users

Top tweeters

Sources

Networks

Replies

The “replies network”, composed from users who reply directly to one another, coloured by page rank.

Better to view the original PNG file in the data directory.

Mentions

The “mentions network”, where users mention other users in their tweets. Filtered for k-core >= 4 and coloured by modularity class.

Better to view the original PNG file in the data directory.

Retweets

Retweet proportion

Retweet count

Top retweets

screen_name text retweet_count
lazappi Slides from my #jtdwehi talk today about building a clustering tree https://t.co/lwTztVstOC 12
lazappi .@bestqualitycrab Visualising creative research (more creatively) #jtdwehi #sketchnotes https://t.co/DXhk1u22nf 10
FCTweedie .@claresloggett’s tips on where to start with data viz in Python #jtdwehi https://t.co/jN626uOAqd 10
FCTweedie Visualising grant recipients: Davids most funded but Richards get more money #jtdwehi https://t.co/iPImbK4paf 9
mikejonesmelb Really valuable point from @KathyReid: sometimes #dataviz decisions affected by need to consider political priorities and buy-in #jtdwehi 9
gravitron @bestqualitycrab demoing dataviz: ask the tricky Q’s not the obvious. Consider the felt not just the instrumental.… https://t.co/ca1zCn4oSO 8
mikejonesmelb More on the Transport Network Strategic Investment Tool (TraNSIT) here https://t.co/z5v827bfjd @Xavier_Ho #jtdwehi 8
mikejonesmelb To visualise data is to encode it; how can we decode it? So Isabelle created Tracey McTraceface https://t.co/4YoxS4T6OS #jtdwehi 7
oldmateo :: "Research publishing methods stuck in the Stone Age" :: Brendan Ansell on balancing completeness and salience i… https://t.co/7WVV2Ni31U 7
gravitron @bestqualitycrab leading a chorus of Slipping Away. Just your run of the mill dataviz conference. #JoiningTheDots… https://t.co/6oxUMXZfpm 7

Favourites

Favourite proportion

Favourite count

Top favourites

screen_name text favorite_count
lazappi Slides from my #jtdwehi talk today about building a clustering tree https://t.co/lwTztVstOC 19
Xavier_Ho People are flowing back in #jtdwehi https://t.co/t4aU8WXoX9 16
WEHI_research Welcome to delegates attending today’s symposium Joining the Dots: The Art and Science of Data Visualisation! #jtdwehi #dataviz 16
FCTweedie Visualising grant recipients: Davids most funded but Richards get more money #jtdwehi https://t.co/iPImbK4paf 12
lazappi .@bestqualitycrab Visualising creative research (more creatively) #jtdwehi #sketchnotes https://t.co/DXhk1u22nf 11
robbie_bonelli So inspired by the talk given by @bestqualitycrab on the problem of #genderequality and how #dataviz can help us! Thanks Deb! #jtdwehi 11
KathyReid The incredible @bestqualitycrab keynoting #jtdwehi https://t.co/mLgKdVt4IX 11
FCTweedie .@claresloggett’s tips on where to start with data viz in Python #jtdwehi https://t.co/jN626uOAqd 11
peterneish Building a clustering tree https://t.co/KDgdRfBejZ #jtdwehi 11
FCTweedie Representing Greek films via olive trees (which are are actually Markov chains) #jtdwehi https://t.co/SB2CG4oH8D 10

Quotes

Quote proportion

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Top quotes

screen_name text quote_count
peterneish Would love to see some taxonomic data plotted like this. #jtdwehi https://t.co/EbBL872fum 5
Xavier_Ho overlaying clusters: the datavis movie #jtdwehi https://t.co/KA5ovvvW6r 5
frostickle

Where can people go from here, to take advantage of things they’ve learnt at #jtdwehi? @ResPlat? @OKFNau?

#dataviz https://t.co/TM6ngns9RS
4
rowlandm The money shot from @_lazappi_ ! #jtdwehi https://t.co/nqynLrC7Vg 3
Xavier_Ho Slide here: https://t.co/o2E59HHoZE #jtdwehi https://t.co/L98WV1tXgu 3
karinv Thanks to @FCTweedie and @rubin_af for a great day of #dataviz! #jtdwehi https://t.co/Hti5FQtMGz 3
rowlandm LImited funding … sounds like research! #jtdwehi https://t.co/gZwllFhtRe 2
peterneish Fascinating insights into the life sciences #jtdwehi https://t.co/LpRwfP00ns 2
karinv Adding the correct hashtag! (sorry folks) #jtdwehi https://t.co/PoGZe8k1k8 2
robbie_bonelli Depressing and motivating! #jtdwehi https://t.co/YCGB1ibYkw 2

Media

Media count

Top media

screen_name text favorite_count
Xavier_Ho People are flowing back in #jtdwehi https://t.co/t4aU8WXoX9 16
FCTweedie Visualising grant recipients: Davids most funded but Richards get more money #jtdwehi https://t.co/iPImbK4paf 12
lazappi .@bestqualitycrab Visualising creative research (more creatively) #jtdwehi #sketchnotes https://t.co/DXhk1u22nf 11
KathyReid The incredible @bestqualitycrab keynoting #jtdwehi https://t.co/mLgKdVt4IX 11
FCTweedie .@claresloggett’s tips on where to start with data viz in Python #jtdwehi https://t.co/jN626uOAqd 11
FCTweedie Representing Greek films via olive trees (which are are actually Markov chains) #jtdwehi https://t.co/SB2CG4oH8D 10
frostickle

Now @Xavier_Ho from the @CSIROnews is talking about Visualising the Australian Transport Network

#jtdwehi #dataviz https://t.co/DcvXYmD45F
10
FCTweedie Getting underway for #jtdwehi with acknowledgement of country from @WEHI_research’s director https://t.co/oNcnu5wtd9 10
FCTweedie Patriarchy looks like this! What happens when we can describe the shape of injustice #jtdwehi https://t.co/8A7EhnFmt5 9
gravitron Best URL of the day goes to @Isa_Kiko’s https://t.co/kapY0Aeacy A great looking tool! #JoiningTheDots #jtdwehi https://t.co/gal2v1PUJY 7

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Tweet text

The 100 words used 3 or more times.