What to expect from Twitter data ?
- Diffusion of information
- Structures of political communities
- Semantic specificity of each community
- Relation between candidates and their community
- Interactions between communities
Welcome to the light side of Big Data
Noé Gaumont
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Goals of the politoscope
Data collection & processing
Data Collection
$3700$ political figures followed
$66$ hashtags tracked
60 millions Tweets between july 2016 and the presidential election
Graph of retweets without modifications
Create a link between accounts if enough retweets present
Twittosphere in 2016
Graph between August and October 2016
Position : computed by an algorithm simulating gravitational forces
Color : computed by the Louvain algorithm
Diffusion of information
Tweet diffusion
Graph between August and October 2016
Diffuse mainly in left-wing communities
Tweet diffusion
Graph between August and October 2016
Diffuse mainly in right-wing communities
Tweet diffusion
Graph between August and October 2016
Diffuse mainly in rigt-wing communities
and accounts without communtiy
Tweet diffusion
Graph between August and October 2016
Diffuse mainly in left-wing communities
and accounts without communtiy
Diffusion of fake news
Graph of twitter accounts sharing fake news and debunks from the Decodeurs
Difference of share of fake news
and debunks
Evolution of the Twittosphere
End of 2016
Graph between August and December 2016
Nodes : Twitter accounts
Links : enough retweets without modification
2 weeks before the first round
Graph 2 weeks before the first round
Between first and second round
Graph between first and second round
Evolution of political communities
Alluvial graph of political communities from august 2016 to septembre 2017
Each vertival bar is proportionnal to the size of the community
François Fillon wins the right-wing primary
Perturbation because of the Penelope Gate
Alluvial graph of political communities from august 2016 to septembre 2017
Socio-semantic dynamics of political communities
When Macron and his community talk about ecology
When Melenchon and his community talk about ecology
How Macron and his community talk about ecology
How Melenchon and his community talk about ecology
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Welcome to the light side of Big Data
Noé Gaumont
politoscope.org
Pint Of Science - 16 /05/2018