Tag Archives: 'Gawk'
Media use in the #qldfloods
Jean Burgess, 22 January 2011
As I’m sure you’re aware, last week was pretty rough for Queensland (and then New South Wales and Victoria), as devastating flash floods ripped through Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, quickly followed by extreme river flooding [...]
Visualising Twitter Dynamics in Gephi, Part 2
Snurb, 30 December 2010
OK, so this is the second part of my post on turning Twitter data from Twapperkeeper into a dynamic network visualisation in Gephi. Last night’s post did the groundwork, generating a GEXF file from our #spill [...]
Visualising Twitter Dynamics in Gephi, Part 1
Snurb, 30 December 2010
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 [...]
More Blog Network Data Cleaning with Gawk
Snurb, 22 September 2010
The other day I outlined some first steps in cleaning our blog network data (generated by our partner researchers at Sociomantic Labs) ahead of visualising it, and posted a first tentative visualisation of the part of [...]
Cleaning Up Blog Network Data with Gawk
Snurb, 20 September 2010
Having done a fair amount of work with Twitter data over the past couple of months, I’m keen to get back now to the other substantive part of our ARC Discovery project on mapping online public [...]
Top 20 election-related YouTube videos (according to Twitter)
Jean Burgess, 12 August 2010
Update: this analysis covers a few less days than I originally stated – the results should look quite different once we add in this week’s links (and next week’s!). Here are the top 20 Australian election-related [...]
Using Gawk and Wget to Resolve URL Shorteners
Snurb, 2 August 2010
Jean’s post today points to a key problem in examining user activities on Twitter and elsewhere – people are increasingly using bit.ly and other URL shorteners, which means that a) the same target URL might appear [...]
Creating Twitter Timelines from Twapperkeeper Data
Snurb, 22 July 2010
This is the first in what will be an irregular series of methods posts outlining some of our approaches to working with datasets from various sources. Part of our work over the next few weeks will [...]




Dynamic Networks in Gephi: From Twapperkeeper to GEXF
You guys did a lot jobs, thanks!I started to do some working on Data v
Queensland Election, Week 4: All Over But the Shouting?
Hi Jim, thanks for this, and good luck on the weekend. The answer to
Queensland Election, Week 4: All Over But the Shouting?
I might like to point out that my actively used Twitter account @Jim4G
Does The Australian’s Paywall Affect Link Sharing?
I find it somewhat insulting as someone who only casually buys the new
Queensland Election, Week 3: The Twitter Story to Date
Hi Ryan, oops, sorry. Must have mixed up your account and @GREENS4Gls