Last week, I posted some R code that downloads the user and timestamp of tweets that contain a given hashtag going back as far as Twitter search will allow. As I noted in the post, the text of these tweets isn’t stored…
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Dataset: Wisconsin Union Protester Tweets #wiunion
I’ve been playing with Twitter data over the last week, archiving Algerian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Chinese tweets. I thought I’d bring the story a little closer to home this time by archiving tweets from Wisconsin Union protesters on the…
RescueTime: Really Cool Time Tracking
I created my RescueTime account in October 2009, installed the client, got confused, and promptly ignored its weekly email until last week. For one reason or another, I was compelled to log back in and check it out. After downloading…
Plotting 3D Graphs with Python, igraph, and Cairo: #cn220 Example
Out of all the visuals I’ve produced, I think the "coolest" is the three-dimensional U.S. Supreme Court citation network 1080p movie I produced with Dan Katz (close friend, coauthor, and newly minted law professor!). 3D networks, especially dynamic ones, really invoke…
Snowmageddon II: February 21, 2011
Remember that last Snowmageddon? This one was pretty good too.
