Reflections and considerations thus far Thus far, I have undertaken some interesting work looking at the networks between different Fridays4Future accounts. This work is more in the field of testing the veracity of different solutions and the limits of my software and hardware, with the aim of informing a more detailed research project at some…
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Adventures in Instagram Scraping (Part Two): InstaCrawlR
This is part of an ongoing program of working with social media data analysis and a range of tools to analyse, including InstaCrawlR, R and Gephi. It’s very much a learning process and a work in progress. I’m documenting my progress here as I try out different methodologies, tools and approaches so that I can…
Setting up GitHub
As part of my plans to work more as a developer, I’ve been trying to make more use of version control systems, and in particular git and github. I’ve looked at a few different ways of dong this, such as SourceTree and Github desktop, but something that I wanted to be at least competent in…
Setting up a virtual environment
Setting up a Virtual Environment I’ve been gradually upskilling my Python abilities, mostly through some small scale projects that focus on particular skills. However, I am also trying to work more like a developer (rather than a careless amateur) and part of that means paying attention to my development environment and the libraries and packages…
Project: Setting up Flask and Python
So, I’ve been upskilling with Python a lot, and, as the rule goes, the best way to learn to code is to code, so I’ve been seeking out some projects to put into place as I continue to develop my Python skills. This is the first such example, which came from the Digital Ocean website….
Adventures in Instagram Scraping (Part Four): Facial Recognition
So, the next thing that I was curious about was finding out how I could do some facial recognition in people’s instagram posts. This was based on some discussions that I’d had with my research partners about meaning interaction, engagement – and the direction of that engagement. Of course, a lot of this has already…
Adventures in Instagram Scraping (Part One): Instagram Scraper
So, for my research, I’ve been looking into social media and learning. Specifically, I’m interested in investigating the learning that takes place on social media. There is a lot more to it than this, and I will write about that on my blog (www.blog.drheggart.com) but I thought I would document the process here. The first…
Adventures in Instagram Scraping (Part Three): Counting Shoutouts
This is a pretty basic little activity, but I’m documenting it here simply because it might, at some point, prove to be useful. In short, I wanted to find a way to measure how much engagement some instagram accounts we’re trying to force – that is, how many other people were they tagging as part…
R Studio and Instagram Scraping
R Studio and Instagram Scraping So, one of my recent projects lately requires me to scrape metadata from instagram and then analyse it. I’ve written about that project in other places, and also the scraping process too, here, but I thought the way that I am analysing the data might be of interest in this…
Font Awesome is, well, awesome.
So I’ve been redeveloping MrHeggart.com into DrHeggart.com recently, and as I’ve been doing so, I’ve been using it as an opportunity to remind myself about using things like Bootstrap- with which I have very limited familiarity, and I wanted to know more. I’ve made use of some excellent free templates that make use of Bootstrap,…