Museums and the Web - Epiphany Project Neo4J and Twitter Data Demo
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The Epiphany Project – short demo Longitudinal analysis of Twitter data using a graph database David Gerrard, Dr Ann O’Brien & Professor Thomas Jackson 4th April 2014 @EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
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This slide deck accompanies a paper written for Museums and the Web 2014 in Baltimore. The paper is here: http://mw2014.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-epiphany-project-discovering-the-intrinsic-value-of-museums-by-analysing-social-media/ and describes the lead-in to the project. The slides show the initial findings from the first three months of project development work, during which data from Twitter about a specific museum (Belper Mill) was captured and put in a Neo4J Graph Database. The slides will be very hard to follow without the notes, which don't seem to be happening on SlideShare at the moment, but if you download the presentation and view it in Powerpoint, you ought to be able to get more of an idea what this is all about.
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@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
The Epiphany Project – short demo
Longitudinal analysis of Twitter data using a graph database
David Gerrard, Dr Ann O’Brien &
Professor Thomas Jackson
4th April 2014
Graph databases
• Show of hands:– Who is familiar with Graph DBs?
• In a nutshell:– A database in which the relationships
between things are first class citizens– Organises data into Directed Graphs
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
Name Twitter Name # Followers
Belper Mill @BelperMill 503
Cromford Mills @CromfordMills 2416
Darley Abbey @DarleyAbbey 1163
Derby Museums @DerbyMuseums 2875
Derby Silk Mill @DerbySilkMill 2448
Derwent Valley Mills @DVMillsWHS 2336
John Smedley @JohnSmedley 4008
Masson Mills @Masson_Mills 4
Willersley Castle @WillersleyHotel 432
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
API Client
TweetInvihttps://tweetinvi.codeplex.com/
VisualisationGraph
database
Neo4Jhttp://www.neo4j.org/
Neo4JClienthttp://hg.readify.net/neo4jclient/overview
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Release 1 system
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
@EpiphanyLboro [email protected] 4th April 2014
Instrumental value Intrinsic value
Where Computational Social Science fits
e.g. Travers (2006) Museums and Galleries in Britain
e.g. Museums Association (2012) Museums 2020 Public Perceptions of
and Attitudes to the Purposes of Museums in society
Computational Social Science
Uses Internet data to examine human behaviour.
(Potentially) enables near-real time analysis of high-volumes of “medium-fidelity” information.
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
PeopleVisit museums
Follow museums and write about
experiences using…
Social media
Enable social networks and
content publicationEpiphany system
API Client
Finds followersand their blogs from
Focused web
crawler
PassURLs to
Harvests content from
Data stores
Graph database
Business intelligence
Links back to
Logic / rules
Visual-isation
Content analyser
Pass content to
MuseumsDisplay objectsHold exhibitions
Inspire…
Architectural vision
I’m looking for…
• Case studies:– I need this research to be useful…– … so I need to work with museums
• More funding:– Current UK Arts and Humanities Research
Council funding ends Sept 2015– There is more than a PhD here
4th April 2014@EpiphanyLboro [email protected]
