Nov'18 - The Connected Communities of R (Perry Stephenson)

We look forward to seeing you at our November meetup, the last one for the year.

Arrive from 5:45pm for a 6pm talk.

The Connected Communities of R

TALK OUTLINE:

The strength of the R sub-culture is supported by a robust set of connected communities, and in this talk I’m going to talk about using a data-driven approach to identify these communities and their relationships. Using a collection of over 400,000 tweets I will use signal processing and graph techniques to uncover the structure of the network - obviously all done using R!

In the talk we will:

• show how to use the “twitterscraper” Python package (booooooo!!!) to pull 400,000 tweets about R

• use the tidygraph, ggraph, particles and gganimate R packages to analyse and visualise the structure of the network

• use signal processing techniques to create community engagement features for clustering

• use the rtweet package to pull metadata about tweets and users

• use the blogdown package to publish your work

For more information, check out the project overview here, https://perrystephenson.me/project/mapping-r-community/

BIO:

Perry Stephenson is a Senior Data Scientist in the tech sector, and this project was recently completed as part of the Master of Data Science and Innovation at UTS.