This is a very simple analysis of the responses to the survey that was distributed as part of the SOISE research mapping activity, taking place in May 2021. Staff were asked to comment on a range of topics including their theories, methodologies, impact, motivations and collaborative endeavours. These responses were used as a starting point…
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Cricket and Data Visualisation (Part One)
Introduction So this is a little passion project of mine that combines two of my interests (even passions) at the moment – cricket and the analysis of data. I’d hardly be the first to note the links between data and elite sport, but this is my first foray beyond armchair spectating, so I am keen…
Project: Making my first web app v2
Okay, this is going to be a brief summary of my first web app – called Elsinore – because that kind of got out of control with all the changes and edits that I made to it. This won’t dive deep into the the code; instead it will function more as an overview. The purpose…
Project: Building a Weather Comparison App
Introduction I’ve been doing a fair amount of mucking around with Python as a tool to create web apps, and I’ve been making some progress in this respect. My latest project has involved me creating a web app for comparison. These are the tools that I’ve used: Python 3: For programming the app Flask: This…
Building my first web app (Part Three)
Building my first web app – part three Okay, I haven’t done any work on this since spending most of Sunday working through a strange bug that caused a few issues. Mostly, I had failed to do two things: Set up the database correctly – I had to run the create app function. I had…
Building my first web app (Part Two)
Building my first web app – part two The next step is to add the shopping list to the page. This part of the web app will work as a shopping list that I can use to add items that I need to purchase, and then check off when it has been purchased. It would…
Building my first web app (Part One)
Introduction So, I’ve been doing a lot of work on python framework and libraries as part of my first web app. This will be very much something that is cobbled together from a few tutorials, how to guides, my work on treehouse, and some interests of my own. I’m not expecting it to be a…
Adventures in Instagram Scraping (Part Eight): US Election 2020
The Plan Okay, using InstaCrawlR JSON Reader, I am now scraping instagram for the hashtag uselection. This was a bit of a random selection – it’s very topical at the moment. I think that I am going to scrape the last 10000 posts using this hashtag. I am then going to try to plot them…
Adventures in Instagram Scraping (Part Seven): Fridays4Future Visualisations
Fridays4Future Scraping and Network Diagramming Selection criteria Looking at accounts from these two most recent posts (21 September):https://www.instagram.com/fridaysforfuture.au/ Anything with FridaysForFuture or FFF in their username (or something similar) Not individual accounts. Accounts: fridaysforfuture.au – done fff_sydney – done FridaysForFuture fridaysforfuture.duesseldorf – done fridaysforfuture.duesseldorf – repeat fridaysforfuturesantamarta – done fridaysforfuture_vorarlberg – done fridaysforfuturecfe – done…
Adventures in Instagram Scraping (Part Six): #Fridays4Future
Plan for Social Network Analysis Part One Goal: identify the users, in Australia, who tweet about #fridays4thefuture the most. Questions: how many? 20? Tools: Instagram-Scraper (https://github.com/arc298/instagram-scraper) Tested: And worked. Convert CSV by number of posts. More research needed. Scrape hashtag #fridaysforfuture instagram-scraper fridaysforfuture –tag -t none -m 50 Didn’t work – only friday for future…