Tutorial: Collect, transform and visualize data with the twitter explorer
- Armin Pournaki (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Abstract
In this tutorial, you will learn how to collect, transform and visualize Twitter data as interactive networks using the (twitterexplorer). Even though it will briefly cover the installation, we encourage users that want to participate in this hands-on tutorial to install the twitter explorer beforehand. Please visit our (newly launched blog), where you will find an introduction and all instructions for the tutorial.
Prerequisites
For users who want to reproduce all the results of the tutorial:
- a Twitter developer account
- a machine that runs the twitter explorer
For users who don't want to collect their own data:
- a machine that runs the twitter explorer
For users who just want to try the interface with the provided dataset:
- a modern web browser