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More Storyhunting Around Local Elections Data Using Gephi – To What Extent Do Candidates Support Each Other?

In Questioning Election Data to See if It Has a Story to Tell I started to explore various ways in which we could start to search for stories in a dataset finessed out of a set of poll notices announcing the recent Isle of Wight Council elections. In this post, I’ll do a little more … Continue reading “More Storyhunting Around Local Elections Data Using Gephi – To What Extent Do Candidates Support Each Other?”

“Drug Deal” Network Analysis with Gephi (Tutorial)

Via a trackback from Check Yo Self: 5 Things You Should Know About Data Science (Author Note) criticising tweet-mapping without further analysis (“If you’re making Gephi graphs out of tweets, you’re probably doing more data science marketing than data science analytics. And stop it. Please. I can’t take any more. … what does it gain … Continue reading ““Drug Deal” Network Analysis with Gephi (Tutorial)”

Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google Refine And Exporting Conversations into Gephi

How can we get a quick snapshot of who’s talking to whom on Twitter in the context of a particular hashtag? Here’s a quick recipe that shows how… First we need to grab some search data. The Twitter API documentation provides us with some clues about how to construct a web address/URL that will grab … Continue reading “Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google Refine And Exporting Conversations into Gephi”

Mapping Related Musical Genres on Wikipedia/DBPedia With Gephi

Following on from Mapping How Programming Languages Influenced Each Other According to Wikipedia, where I tried to generalise the approach described in Visualising Related Entries in Wikipedia Using Gephi for grabbing datasets in Wikipedia related to declared influences between items within particular subject areas, here’s another way of grabbing data from Wikipedia/DBpedia that we can … Continue reading “Mapping Related Musical Genres on Wikipedia/DBPedia With Gephi”

Visualising Related Entries in Wikipedia Using Gephi

Sometime last week, @mediaczar tipped me off to a neat recipe on the wonderfully named Drunks&Lampposts blog, Graphing the history of philosophy, that uses Gephi to map an influence network in the world of philosophy. The data is based on the extraction of the “influencedBy” relationship over philosophers referred to in Wikipedia using the machine … Continue reading “Visualising Related Entries in Wikipedia Using Gephi”

Visualising Networks in Gephi via a Scraperwiki Exported GEXF File

How do you visualise data scraped from the web using Scraperwiki as a network using a graph visualisation tool such as Gephi? One way is to import the a two-dimensional data table (i.e. a CSV file) exported from Scraperwiki into Gephi using the Data Explorer, but at times this can be a little fiddly and … Continue reading “Visualising Networks in Gephi via a Scraperwiki Exported GEXF File”

A Tool Chain for Plotting Twitter Archive Retweet Graphs – Py, R, Gephi

Another set of stepping stones that provide a clunky route to a solution that @mhawksey has been working on a far more elegant expression of (eg Free the tweets! Export TwapperKeeper archives using Google Spreadsheet and Twitter: How to archive event hashtags and create an interactive visualization of the conversation)… The recipe is as follows: … Continue reading “A Tool Chain for Plotting Twitter Archive Retweet Graphs – Py, R, Gephi”

Visualising Twitter Friend Connections Using Gephi: An Example Using the @WiredUK Friends Network

To corrupt a well known saying, “cook a man a meal and he’ll eat it; teach a man a recipe, and maybe he’ll cook for you…”, I thought it was probably about time I posted the recipe I’ve been using for laying out Twitter friends networks using Gephi, not least because I’ve been generating quite … Continue reading “Visualising Twitter Friend Connections Using Gephi: An Example Using the @WiredUK Friends Network”

Visualising Vodafone Mclaren F1 Telemetry Data in Gephi

Last year, I popped up an occasional series of posts visualising captures of the telemetry data that was being streamed by the Vodoafone McLaren F1 team (F1 Data Junkie). I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the data this year, but being a lazy sort, it struck me that I should be able … Continue reading “Visualising Vodafone Mclaren F1 Telemetry Data in Gephi”

Visualising Delicious Tag Communities Using Gephi

Years ago, I used the Javascript Infovis Toolkit to put together a handful of data visualisations around the idea of the “social life of a URL” by looking up bookmarked URLs on delicious and then seeing who had bookmarked them and using what tags (delicious URL History – Hyperbolic Tree Visualisation, More Hyperbolic Tree Visualisations … Continue reading “Visualising Delicious Tag Communities Using Gephi”