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Georgia BullenField Operations
Technologist
Participatory Social Impact
Research
Creating digital networks is mostly a social
process.
Video, Audio, Graphics, Web, IT/Networking
Documentation: Collection Methods
• If This Then That (IFTTT) http://ifttt.com– Whenever “#detroitfuture” is tweeted Update
Wordpress Blog w/tweet info
• Open Source Twitter Archive Tool– Immortal nTwitter, nTwitter, CouchDB, NodeJS
– Javascript Library for listening on the Twitter API*• https://github.com/horixon/immortal-ntwitter
• https://github.com/horixon/ntwitter
• http://couchdb.apache.org/
• http://nodejs.org/
*In Glossary
Research Question
Who is the “#detroitfuture” community? How has it evolved over the course of the program?
– When and how often were people tweeting?• How does this relate to the media trainings and program
events?
– Who’s tweeting?
– What are they tweeting about?
– Who’s tweeting to whom?
What does the data look like?
• Username
• Tweet
• Retweets
• Date & Time
• Users Mentioned
• Lots and lots of metadata…
Looking at Tweets Over Time
• When and how often were people
tweeting?
• How does this relate to the media trainings
and program events?
• Counts of Tweets by Date -> Chart
• Information about events & trainings
#detroitfuture social network
• Who’s tweeting to whom?
• ParticipantA ParticipantB, Count of Tweets
• Gephi – http://gephi.org– Network Visualization Software, Open Source,
Easy to use
– Calculate edge (links) and node (participant) scores
– Run an analysis for communities within the community
#detroitfuture oct 2012
#detroitfuture june 2013
Key Findings
• Online & Offline organization
• Allows us to ask Innovative questions
• Agency and authority for participants
• Evolution from training issues
Future Research
• Natural Language Sentiment Analysis
• Add interactive time control into the
network visualization
• Demographics based on Twitter Bios
Challenges
• Have to teach how to use twitter first
• APIs/Webformats/etc – need assistance
with more technical skill sets
• Twitter API doesn’t get everything
• Keeping the community engaged in using
the hashtag
• Hashtag is public and can be usurped
Philadelphia – KEYSPOTS Program
Research Question
Did the partnership function well? What was the impact of the BTOP funding on the partnership organizations?
– Did the organizations involved collaborate with each other?
– Did the organizations involved collaborate with outside organizations?
Collaboration Weighting Model
Within Grant: 1
External to Grants: 2
Between Grants: 3
Analysis Methodology
• Data cleaning & Coding
– Clean for text matching
– Grant assignments and weighting
– OrganizationA OrganizationB, Weight of
Collaboration
Glossary
• API – Application Programming Interface;
Basically a query tool for interacting with
web systems
Resources
• OTI: http://oti.newamerica.net
• Detroit Future Program: http://detroitfuture.org
• #detroitfuture on twitter: http://twitter.com/search?q=%23detroitfuture&src=hash
• Gephi: http://gephi.org
• VLOOKUP & Excel Functions: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/vlookup-HP005209335.aspx
• Pivot Tables: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/pivottable-reports-101-HA001034632.aspx
