Software
Software used are NODEXL an open source for social media analytics and Microsoft Excel.
Source
Twitter has become a big source of big data text analytics and a big social media platform.
Data Extraction
The process of extracting tweets from http://www.ifttt.com using my own formula of if new tweet then create a new document.
Process
The process of this you must have an twitter account to link up with http://www.ifttt.com account that lets you create your own recipes of “if -> then” statements. I created a statement of gathering twitter tweets with hashtags of #kershaw (LA Dodgers pitcher). He currently won the CY award and I knew I would be able to gather a good amount of social media data. My “ifttt” account collects #kershaw tweets from users and updates the tweet to my google drive account. After gathering all the data and converting the file to an excel file to upload to NODEXL.
Analyzing the Data
Each node is a completely different color and shape indicating a twitter user. The tweets with circle are just normal tweets not mentioning anyone or replying towards anyone. For this case people are just tweeting #kershaw on their twitter account. The tweets with a line and arrow are tweeting towards someone else, which in this case is tweeting towards “ClaytonKersh22” with twitter hashtag of #kershaw. As you can see the area of the map with a lot of concentrated arrows pointing towards ClaytonKersh22’s account.
It just shows how easy it is to gather data from a social media source and use the data gathered and create some sort of explanation of social media data.
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