Tutorials

Mastering the Bluesky Firehose with Python: A Simple Tutorial

Bluesky is awesome for many reasons, however one feature which not many may know about is the ability to collect data using the publicly available API thanks to the AT protocol - the system used to...

How to Stream from the Mastodon API via HTTP in Python

As I’ve mentioned in many of my blog posts before this one, Mastodon has a publicly available API which can be used to scrape statuses, collect hashtags and much more.

One feature that...

How Self-Organising Maps Work: Explained with Graphics

Artificial Neural Networks (simply known as neural networks) come in all different shapes and sizes and can be designed to solve different types of problems. Classification, regression, supervised...

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...