Nice work with social networking analysis. I do research on nonprofits and technology, too, but have never been to NTEN. I was wondering if you would be willing to share more details on how you implemented the HITS algorithm? I am doing a study on nonprofits’ use of Twitter and think the hub/authority analysis might make a useful addition. I’d also be happy to share my code with you (I’m a relative newbie at Python, but have developed a few simple scripts to download and parse tweets and put them into an sqlite database. Also playing around with some basic natural language processing).

At any rate, I hope to hear from you. Thanks in advance for your time.

Cheers,

Greg

Gregory Saxton, Dept. of Communication, University at Buffalo, SUNY
@NPTimes100

I do have some questions that I would be interested to ask related to your analysis and your research questions. For example, you mention the main stream media but, in the case of Moldova, the “old school” media had no way of investigating what was going on in Chisinau but through the Internet. The main television and the international (i.e. mostly Russian) journalists present there were very political colored. Talking about how people used Twitter in Moldova was a very elegant way of getting away with very little information during the first days. Later more information was available but the Twitter got glued to the events in Moldova.

I do have other questions that I am interested to hear your take on so please feel free to email me if you would like to talk more about this.
If possible, I would also be interested to take a look at the “authorities” graph of #pman. Do you have one done just for the data from the first 3 days?

Thanks for being interested in #pman :)

Is there a definitive “Poor Man’s Dummies Guide To Social Network Analysis for Non-Geeks?”