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Investigations of an itinerant scholar, mostly trying to make sense of this crazy place called South Africa through data science and culture.
Feb 6, 2022 16 tweets 11 min read
THREAD: Here's a visualisation of the SECOND report from the @StateCaptureCom, focusing on Transnet and Denel. It was created by @thembani_p and myself 🧐🧐🧐 2/ You might also want to remind yourself about our visualisation of the first report in this thread:
Jul 15, 2021 15 tweets 7 min read
THREAD: We're dealing with the 'fog of war' right now as the looting/insurrection continues. Here's a small attempt at some context based on 904k tweets as of Wednesday 14 July. #ShutdownSA Four main communities are driving the conversation. Most of them are anti-looting and anti-insurrection. This network map visualises the communities involved on Twitter. Caveat: community membership is a statistical process; it does not 100% confirm ideological alignment. Image
Feb 21, 2020 7 tweets 7 min read
1/ It’s a bit late, but here’s a quick look at SONA discussions on Twitter. This is based on ~424,000 tweets by ~114,000 Twitter users between last Monday 10th until this morning (Friday 21st). The vast majority of the tweets were generated during the time of the SONA though. 2/ Here’s the network of users discussing SONA. The EFF and RET communities group together. They increasingly sing from the same hymn book esp. wrt to Gordhan. Almost a quarter (23%) of all tweets came from this community. All together now folks: “Twitter isn’t real life”.