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Joe Biden and Paul Ryan: Pre and Post Debate

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I would like to start by thanking Peter for inviting me to write this post on the Swarm Creativity blog. I have been in Peter’s COINs class for over a month now and I am thoroughly fascinated by what social network analysis can teach us. For the COINs class’ midterm exam that involves gathering, analyzing and inferring from social media data, I was assigned the topic “Joe Biden against Paul Ryan” . It was a great topic for me since I was planning on doing some coolhunting on this topic after the Vice Presidential debate that evening. Conducting the analysis before the debate made the results even more interesting. I have used Condor’s Twitter Collector to collect Twitter feeds and Condor Web Collector’s Google Blog Search to collect website data. Here are the results, pre and post-debate. Pre-Debate Analysis Twitter   Following image shows the network of users talking about Paul Ryan and Joe Biden on Twitter. The blue dots are users talking about Joe Biden, the green a