Tweets from the 225th meeting of the AAS
Can we divine anything from the Twitter stream of the 225th meeting of the AAS?
The search terms are (the search is case insensitive):
- AAS225
- AAS 225
- hackAAS, for tweets about the AAS hack day.
- AASviz, an effort to track poster comments.
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How did I collect and analyze the tweets?
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A quick overview of the tweets from AAS 225.
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When did people tweet about AAS 225?
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What were the most-popular words used to describe the meeting.
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Who was tweeting about the meeting? You have a long way to go to beat the reigning tweeter, Summer Ash, who is actually tweeting from at least three accounts during AAS225!
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Who tweeted about AAS225 (a look at their Twitter biographies in the form of a word cloud)?
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Note: this has been disabled since it does not work well with the number of tweets we now have.
A look at who talked about or to who (a constellation of Astronomers).
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Note: this has been disabled since it does not work well with the number of tweets we now have.
An alternative view of user connections, this time using an adjacency matrix. This can show more data than the "hairball" view provided in the "Constellation" view above, but it needs more analysis on my part to really bring out this structure (if there is any).
Unlike the AAS221 meeting, I have not (yet?, depends on how much snow we have here) set up a TAGSExplorer site for the meeting. Follow these instructions to create your own and see how to combine the Google Query Language with the Tweet display.
