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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/twitter-coverage-of-the-lorne-genome-conference-2017/"> R – What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Things to know about Lorne in the state of Victoria, Australia.</p>
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<li>It’s situated on the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ocean_Road">Great Ocean Road</a>, a major visitor attraction and a great way to see the scenic coastline of the region</li>
<li>It’s home to a number of life science conferences including <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lornegenome.org/">Lorne Genome</a> 2017</li>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/twitter-coverage-of-the-lorne-genome-conference-2017/tweets-by-day-hour-1/"><img sizes="(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px" data-image-description="" data-orig-file="https://i1.wp.com/nsaunders.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/tweets-by-day-hour-1.png?w=456&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="504,504" data-image-title="tweets-by-day-hour-1" data-comments-opened="1" class="wp-image-4703" data-recalc-dims="1" data-attachment-id="4703" data-permalink="https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/twitter-coverage-of-the-lorne-genome-conference-2017/tweets-by-day-hour-1/" alt="tweets-by-day-hour-1" data-medium-file="https://i1.wp.com/nsaunders.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/tweets-by-day-hour-1.png?w=456&amp;ssl=1?w=300" data-large-file="https://i1.wp.com/nsaunders.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/tweets-by-day-hour-1.png?w=456&amp;ssl=1?w=504" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" src="https://i1.wp.com/nsaunders.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/tweets-by-day-hour-1.png?w=456&ssl=1"></a>This week’s project then: use R to analyse coverage of the 2017 meeting on Twitter. I last did <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/twitter-coverage-of-the-ismb-2012-meeting-some-statistics/">something similar</a> for the ISMB meeting in 2012. How things have changed. Back then I prepared PDF reports using Sweave, retrieved tweets using the <code>twitteR</code> package and struggled with dates and time when plotting timelines. This time around I wrote RMarkdown in RStudio, tried out the newer <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/mkearney/rtweet">rtweet</a> package and, thanks to packages such as <code>dplyr</code> and <code>lubridate</code>, the data munging is all so much cleaner and simpler.</p>
<p>So without further ado here are:</p>
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<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/neilfws/Twitter/tree/master/lornegenome2017">The relevant files</a> at Github</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://rpubs.com/neilfws/250541">A HTML presentation</a> published at RPubs</li>
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<p>The presentation examines several aspects of the conference coverage under the broad headings of timeline, users, networks, retweets, favourites, quotes, media and text. Make sure to click in the title page, then you can navigate using your arrow keys.</p>
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