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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://www.seascapemodels.org/rstats/2017/07/25/ICCB2017-tweets.html"> Bluecology blog</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<h2>What are people saying about International Congress for Conservation Biology 2017 on Twitter?</h2>
<p>Here’s a brief analysis of tweets from the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://conbio.org/mini-sites/iccb-2017" target="_blank">International Congress for Conservation Biology</a> to date. The conference started on the starting 23rd July I was curious to see what people are talking about there and who is doing the talking on twitter.</p>
<p>As of 25th July I could access 6978 tweets and retweets from the conference, starting on 2017-07-15.</p>
<p>If you are wondering how these stats compare to other conferences, check out my <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.seascapemodels.org/research%20rstats/2016/06/27/ICRS-tweets.html" target="_blank">post from ICRS</a> last year.</p>
<h3>Who is talking</h3>
<p>There have been about 1500 users on #ICCB2017 so far.</p>
<p>Clearly, the people talking on twitter are a biased selection of people at ICCB2017 and may also include people not there (like me). As usual, a lot people only tweet once or twice.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.seascapemodels.org/Images/iccb2017-number_users.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"></p>
<p>The users doing the most tweeting are (in order of most to least with number of tweets):</p>
<p>@IbuAnggrek	528, @ICCB2017	310, @AzurigenMCS	199, @WhySharksMatter	179, @rebecca_jarvis	172,<br>
@CarlaWildlife	146, @WILDLABSNET	93, @Society4ConBio	84, @FancyScientist	80,<br>
@davila_federico	79</p>
<h3>Most popular tweets</h3>
<p>Here is a table of the most popular tweets, by their RT count:</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Rank</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>text</th>
<th>Retweet count</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>WhySharksMatter</td>
<td>Angler gives up chance at world record, releases huge blacktip shark alive. #ICCB2017 #SharkWeek (from 2014) https://t.co/dwmiAeSXQW https://t.co/74SyQ6Uhfk</td>
<td>96</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>eguerreroforero</td>
<td>@Brigittelgb en #ICCB2017: A los países megadiversos nos llaman ‘megadispersos’ porq no hemos logrado posicionar políticamente biodiversidad https://t.co/u43dVvcjHO</td>
<td>65</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>HugePossum</td>
<td>Australia’s proposed marine parks have never been science based – bad planning for nature and people #ICCB2017 https://t.co/rZXAueuod6</td>
<td>64</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>ICCB2017</td>
<td>#ICCB2017 attendees – there are sloths in El Parque Centenario near the convention center! #UrbanWildlife https://t.co/81YktjU4Mu</td>
<td>59</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>Seasaver</td>
<td>UN Patron of Oceans calls for ban on tournaments which kill threatened sharks https://t.co/P5KmUxBte3 #ICCB2017 @TheIGFA #sportfishing</td>
<td>40</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>I like that sloths are right up there at number 4 at the moment. Marine science topics are also pretty popular.</p>
<h3>What people are saying</h3>
<p>Textual analysis is a bit of a dark art, but here are some of the most popular words appearing in tweets (with the number of tweets they appear in ):</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Term</th>
<th>Number of tweets</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>iccb</td>
<td>6965</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>conserv</td>
<td>1064</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>amp</td>
<td>691</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>colombia</td>
<td>477</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>talk</td>
<td>467</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>biodivers</td>
<td>411</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cartagena</td>
<td>380</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>work</td>
<td>362</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>will</td>
<td>323</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>whysharksmatter</td>
<td>315</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>societyconbio</td>
<td>304</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>open</td>
<td>303</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>great</td>
<td>298</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>can</td>
<td>293</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>come</td>
<td>292</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>use</td>
<td>289</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>conservation</td>
<td>287</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>join</td>
<td>285</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>need</td>
<td>248</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>world</td>
<td>244</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>At this stage the location is an imporant talking point. Also predictably ‘conservation’ and ‘biodiversity’ are also up there. It is interesting that ‘need’ features in a lot of tweets. Perhaps a lot of people saying we ‘need’ to do this or that?</p>
<h3>Time of tweets</h3>
<p>Finally, it can be illustrative to look at the timing of tweets. This graph is made with times for the time zone local to Cartagena.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.seascapemodels.org/Images/iccb2017-tweet-times.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"></p>
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