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Analysing Posts About the #Coronation on Mastodon

There is no doubt that the recent coronation of King Charles III was a massive event in the UK. Whether you're in favour of the monarchy or not, there is no doubt that the coronation event is a big...

How to Build Tag Clouds From Mastodon Hashtags

Hashtags are an important part of microblogging and are used to reach a wider audience of interested people. Much like Twitter, hashtags are also widely used on Mastodon and it's common for users t...

How to Create Simple Dynamic Graphs in Gephi

In a previous post, I walked through the basics on how to import a network into Gephi using a...

Finding New Followers on Mastodon Using Python and Network Science

I'm still relatively new to Mastodon and, so far, I love it. Ever since Twitter started going down hill (for reasons which I won't cover yet again) I have used Mastodon as my go-to microblogging pl...

How to Import a Network From a Spreadsheet Using Gephi

Gephi, is an amazing piece of software for building and visualising different types of network. It is considered the go-to software for network analytics and visualisation and is widely used by tho...