9. Documentation: Collection Methods
âą If This Then That (IFTTT) http://ifttt.com
â Whenever â#detroitfutureâ is tweeted ï Update
Wordpress Blog w/tweet info
âą Open Source Twitter Archive Tool
â Immortal nTwitter, nTwitter, CouchDB, NodeJS
â Javascript Library for listening on the Twitter API*
âą https://github.com/horixon/immortal-ntwitter
âą https://github.com/horixon/ntwitter
âą http://couchdb.apache.org/
âą http://nodejs.org/
*In Glossary
10. Research Question
Who is the â#detroitfutureâ community?
How has it evolved over the course of the
program?
â When and how often were people tweeting?
âą How does this relate to the media trainings and program
events?
â Whoâs tweeting?
â What are they tweeting about?
â Whoâs tweeting to whom?
11. What does the data look like?
âą Username
âą Tweet
âą Retweets
âą Date & Time
âą Users Mentioned
âą Lots and lots of metadataâŠ
12. Looking at Tweets Over Time
âą When and how often were people
tweeting?
âą How does this relate to the media trainings
and program events?
âą Counts of Tweets by Date -> Chart
âą Information about events & trainings
13.
14. #detroitfuture social network
âą Whoâs tweeting to whom?
âą ParticipantAï ParticipantB, Count of Tweets
âą Gephi â http://gephi.org
â Network Visualization Software, Open Source,
Easy to use
â Calculate edge (links) and node (participant)
scores
â Run an analysis for communities within the
community
18. Key Findings
âą Online & Offline organization
âą Allows us to ask Innovative questions
âą Agency and authority for participants
âą Evolution from training ï issues
19. Future Research
âą Natural Language Sentiment Analysis
âą Add interactive time control into the
network visualization
âą Demographics based on Twitter Bios
20. Challenges
âą Have to teach how to use twitter first
âą APIs/Webformats/etc â need assistance
with more technical skill sets
âą Twitter API doesnât get everything
âą Keeping the community engaged in using
the hashtag
âą Hashtag is public and can be usurped
22. Research Question
Did the partnership function well? What
was the impact of the BTOP funding on
the partnership organizations?
â Did the organizations involved collaborate with
each other?
â Did the organizations involved collaborate with
outside organizations?
24. Analysis Methodology
âą Data cleaning & Coding
â Clean for text matching
â Grant assignments and weighting
â OrganizationAï OrganizationB, Weight of
Collaboration