lxcode/twarc-networks

twarc-networks

This module extends twarc to allow you to build a reply, quote, retweet network from a file of tweets and write it out as a gexf, dot, json or html file. You will need to have networkx installed and pydotplus if you want to use dot. The html presentation uses D3 to display the network graph in your browser.

Install

First you need to install twarc and this plugin:

pip install twarc
pip install twarc-networks

To create a static D3 visualization use the subcommand networks that is supplied by twarc-networks:

twarc2 networks tweets.jsonl network.html

Optionally you can consolidate tweets by user, allowing you to see central accounts:

twarc2 networks --users tweets.jsonl network.html

Additionally, you can create a network of hashtags, allowing you to view their colocation:

twarc2 networks --hashtags tweets.jsonl tweets.html

And if you want to use the network graph in a program like Gephi, you can generate a GEXF file with the following:

twarc2 networks --users tweets.jsonl tweets.gexf
twarc2 networks --hashtags tweets.jsonl tweets.gexf

Testing

To run the tests you will need run:

python setup.py test