Modeling influence and community in social media data using the digital methods initiative-twitter capture and analysis toolkit (DMI-TCAT) and Gephi.

The methods summarized in this video tutorial series are based on the open source Digital Methods Initiative - Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolkit (DMI-TCAT) that allows media researchers to collect tweets off the STREAM API (application programming interface) on an ongoing basis. With DMI - TCAT and the open source data visualization software Gephi, social data in the millions of units is quickly and easily sorted by algorithms to find users or items of importance on Twitter, such as in the Fig. 1 below.