GET 17 - SNA

Social Network Analysis course

Installation

Install miniconda with python 3.6 from https://conda.io/miniconda.html Clone this respository to your machine using either of the following options:

Using Github (requires installation of git)

• Install git from https://git-scm.com/downloads
• Open your command line tool (CMD for windows and terminal for Mac or Linux)
• Go to a directory where you would like to clone the repository
• Run git clone git@github.com:napsternxg/GET17_SNA.git

Using zip files

• Download the latest zipfile of the source code from https://github.com/napsternxg/GET17_SNA/archive/master.zip
• Unzip the files to a directory

Install dependencies

• Open your terminal and go to the folder where you have cloned or unzipped the files
• Run the command conda env create -f environment.yml. For help refer to Anaconda managing environment
• The above command should install the required dependencies on your machine including all libraries
• Activate the environment using source activate get17_sna on Mac/Linux and activate get17_sna on Windows for help refer to Activating Environment
• Once your environment is activated you are ready to run the code.

Run Notebook environment

From the same directory where you have the cloned or unzipped files, run the following command.

jupyter notebook

This should launch a webpage in your browser with the notebook environment.

Examples details

• The notebook NetworkX.ipynb has some basic code on getting started with NetworkX
• The notebook Twitter.ipynb has the demo code from class on running twitter based network analysis.

Getting Twitter API keys

Please refer to Twitter App Creation page for details on getting your API keys.