Visualising Twitter Dynamics in Gephi, Part 1
From the post:
In the following posts I’m finally keeping my promise to explore in earnest the use of Gephi’s dynamic timeline feature for visualising Twitter-based discussions as they unfolded in real time. A few months ago, Jean posted a first glimpse of our then still very experimental data on Twitter dynamics, with a string of caveats attached – and I followed up on this a little while later with some background on the Gawk scripts we’re using to generate timeline data in GEXF format from our trusty Twapperkeeper archives (note that I’ve updated one of the scripts in that post, to make the process case-insensitive). Building on those posts, here I’ll outline the entire process and show some practical results (disclaimer: actual dynamic animations will follow in part two, tomorrow – first we’re focussing on laying the groundwork).
This article was mentioned in Dynamic Twitter graphs with R and Gephi (clip and code) as an interesting example of “aging” edges.
While there is an obvious time component to tweets, is there an implied relevancy based on time for other information as well?
Tactical information should be displayed to ground level commanders and be sans longer term planning data, while for command headquarters, tactical information is just clutter on the display.
Looks like a fruitful area for exploration.
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