Back on my pc--and here's my whole visualization for #AAA2015. It's the largest set of tweets I've ever mapped from AAA: 21, 879 edges, 3543 nodes. I ran it when I got to my office on Monday, November 23 and it covers the whole 8 day window that includes some pre- and post-tweets. I used the Clauset-Newman-Moore cluster algorithm to group the tweets--said to be particularly effective in revealing community structures in large networks. Finally, each identified "group" is arranged in its own box, courtesy of the Harel-Koren Fast Multiscale layout algorithm. Nice! That said, it's hard to beat Marc Smith , who mapped out the network on Saturday, November 21. He's got a neater graph than mine--it's his software, after all! But I still wanted to work through my own data. In many ways, the graph is typical of associations. Marc Smith et al (2014 ) might call this an example of a "tight crowd": " highly interconnected people w...
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