This week I have been playing with another free Social Network Analysis software - TAGs from Martin Hawksey (Twitter: @mhawksey). The software is available from https://tags.hawksey.info/ and provides, among other things, a way of collecting Twitter data into a Google Sheet document via a template. How it is set up is on the site (https://tags.hawksey.info/) and especially useful is the video on the site, that I have also embedded below.
As an experiment I was curious about the network of twitter users using the hashtag #CCUKchat this week; so it seemed like a good opportunity to try it. The filled in template for this task (after the set-up procedure is completed) is shown below, it was then run (an option that is found in the TAGS pull-down menu that will have been created during the set-up operation).
At the bottom of figure above you see two buttons at the bottom of the page, clicking on the one marked TAGSExplorer you get a URL which takes you to an interactive page with the network shown.
Clicking on retweets produced
I am still getting my head around what these show or mean. One of the tools included that is helpful can be found back in the google sheet. Under the TAGS pull-down menu, there is an option to create a Dashboard which is an another sheet, an example is shown below.
It is informative. To add a bit of context #CCUKchat is a tweetchat that took place on the 18th May 2016 20:00-21:00 BST. The results show the spike and then a lower-level of usage after for a few days.
This is a piece of software I will be exploring more and would encourage others to have a go with themselves. There are lots of option to explore both in the template but also on the interactive network graph.
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