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added Python scripts, did a lot of data cleaning, changed node size to be proportional to number of channels

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Tristan Lee
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@@ -17,10 +17,13 @@ const DescriptionPanel: FC = () => {
This visualisation represents a <i>network</i> of{" "}
<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://spacy.io/usage/linguistic-features#named-entities">
named entities
</a> in English-language posts archived in a database of Telegram channels that have posted about GESARA. Each{" "}
</a> in English-language posts archived in a database of Telegram channels that have posted about the GESARA conspiracy theory. Each{" "}
<i>node</i> represents an entity, <i>edges</i> between nodes indicate that one or more posts contain both entities
.
</p>
<p>
This kind of visualization shows the ecosystem of the people, organizations, and ideas these conspiracy Telegram channels talk about, as well as the connections between them.
</p>
<p>
Some social media channels were identified by researchers from{" "}
<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://www.bellingcat.com/">
@@ -50,21 +53,20 @@ const DescriptionPanel: FC = () => {
sigma.js
</a>
. You can read the source code{" "}
<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://github.com/jacomyal/sigma.js/tree/main/demo">
<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://github.com/bellingcat/gesara-entity-viz">
on GitHub
</a>
.
</p>
<p>
Node sizes are related to the number of times the entity was mentioned in the database.
</p>
<p>
The network was visualized using{" "}
<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gephi.org/">
Gephi
</a>. Node sizes are related to the number of channels the entity was posted about in the database.
Nodes are colored based a{" "}
<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0476">
community detection algorithm
</a>.
</p>
<p>
For visualisation purposes, edges were pruned using the{" "}
<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://github.com/naviddianati/GraphPruning">
Marginal Likelihood Filter