Tag: twitter

Examining 200k+ Russian troll tweets

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably seen news reports that Russian trolls have been posting on social media to allegedly conduct what they called “information warfare against the United States, with the stated goal of spreading distrust towar…

Let’s analyze Trump’s tweets

Since Trump because the US president, many people have noticed that he posts a lot of tweets. While some people choose to analyze and critique the content of those tweets, I was more curious about something a little less controversial – the timing and quantity. Follow along as I dig into […]

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How to dress (your graph) for success!

The way your graph looks can make all the difference … two people can graph the exact same data in essentially the same way, but one of the two graphs can be perceived as much better than the other. Hopefully reading my blogs will help you create the better graph! […]

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Variations on a stickman graph: Analyzing the Twitter minions

One of our customers asked if I could show him how to reproduce a stickman graph that David McCandless (ala, Information is Beautiful) had created. I’m not sure that it’s the best kind of graph for the occasion, but of course SAS can be used to create it! … David’s […]

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Hammer time with high school students

This morning I delivered a talk to visiting high school students at the SAS campus. The topic: using SAS to analyze Twitter content.

Being teenagers, high school students are well familiar with Twitter. But this batch of students was also very …

Running PROCs on Your Facebook Friends (2011 version)

While talking to fellow SAS users at SAS Global Forum 2011 this week, I’ll be discussing how SAS programmers can “play” with social media data that they can access on Facebook and Twitter. I always refer people to my blog for more information, an…

SAS programmers: meet Twitter

“Twitter, thou art nought but data.” So sayeth the SAS programmer.

Many data analysts now recognize Twitter for what it is: a tremendous source of data covering almost any topic, from Justin Bieber’s hair to political uprisings to technical conf…