The structure of tweets: the most discussed and undiscussed topics

The International Summer School ‘Social Network Analysis: Internet Research’ has held in HSE St.Petersburg, August 15, 2013, which was organized by the Laboratory for Internet Studies and Sociology of Education and Science Laboratory. One of the lecturers at the school was Dr. Anatoly Gruzd - Director of Social Media Lab at Dalhousie University, Canada.

The International Summer School ‘Social Network Analysis: Internet Research’ has held in HSE St.Petersburg, August 15, 2013, which was organized by the Laboratory for Internet Studies and Sociology of Education and Science Laboratory. One of the lecturers at the school was Dr. Anatoly Gruzd - Director of Social Media Lab at Dalhousie University, Canada. 

Anatoly Gruzd

As part of the school Dr. Gruzd and his colleague Mr. Philip Mai have presented their paper at The Laboratory for Internet Studies (LINIS). They also told about the lab and recent researches which they conducted and also the results of them.

Another interesting topic was a software. In the Social Media Lab the researchers created Netlytic app for the analysis of large data sets. The application is able to summarize large amount of texts automatically and detect social networks in social media such as Twitter, YouTube, blogs and online forums.

Dr. Anatoly Gruzd has also taught participants using Netlytic, which can determine whether there is a discussion on a certain topic in Twitter communities which have never talked to each other and tweeted solely internally or topic assumes the character of general discussion.

The second part of the seminar was about Olesya Koltsova’s, Head of the Laboratory for Internet Studies and her colleagues’s report regarding a research they conducted recently, the methods used in the analysis of texts and software which has been developed and used in the lab.