tutorial4.md

Tutorial 4

Open up this file in Gephi and explore

Use the Scraping guide and the Quick start guide

Your Tasks

1. Clean up the file to include Source and Target columns

   Open it in OpenRefine

   Rename from.name to Source

   Add a column named Target based on original_post.from.name

   if(isNonBlank(row.cells["parent.from.name"]), row.cells["parent.from.name"].value, value)

2. Import into Gephi

   

3. Copy the Id column into the Label

   

4. Show labels and adjust their size

   

5. Adjust the edge thickness

6. Use the Layout window to adjust the graph's appearance

   

7. Rank nodes with size by their Degree

   

8. In the Statistics Window, find the Average Degree, Network diameter and Modularity of the graph

   

9. Apply the Modularity Class partition to see communities

   

10. Apply the Degree Range filter to remove the less connected nodes

11. Adjust the settings in the Preview window to export the file

    

Scrape each of the following from Reaper and clean them up for Gephi:

1. Facebook post comments: 110233818125_10155191101963126
2. Twitter 10000 tweets: Go to twitter.com and scrape something from the trending list on the left
3. Reddit subreddit's top 100 threads top 500 comments: listentothis