WARM in Urbino – presentation slides available

Just a quick update to say that the slides from the Workshop on Advanced Research Methods (WARM) at the University of Urbino last week are now available here . It was a very interesting day, covering everything from Lady Gaga derivative videos to social media metrics and even personality identification using computational linguistics (!) – …

Mapping the Australian Blogosphere Some More

My previous post outlined a few more steps I’ve taken in cleaning up our emerging dataset of links in the Australian blogosphere (current limitations of our data are also listed there). It’s time to take those cleaner data for a spin, then. Beyond mapping the interlinkages between our known blogs during the period of 17 …

More Blog Network Data Cleaning with Gawk

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 the Australian blogosphere that we’re currently tracking. In this post I’ll continue that discussion, describing a few more steps …

First Steps in Mapping the Australian Blogosphere

Following on from my previous post about the methods we’re starting to use to make sense of the Australian blogosphere data we’re receiving from our colleagues at Sociomantic Labs, here’s a first look at what happens when we begin to visualise those data in the open source network visualisation software Gephi. Let me begin by …

Cleaning Up Blog Network Data with Gawk

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 communication in Australia during this first year of the project: examining patterns of interaction within and across the Australian …