Exercise

Creating reply network

Reply networks have a markedly different structure to retweet networks. While retweet networks often signal agreement, replies can signal discussion, deliberation, and disagreement. The network properties are the same, however: the network is directed, the source is the replier and the target is the user who is being replied to.

For this exercise we are going to create a reply network from a slightly different sample of State of the Union tweets. Those tweets have been loaded for you in sotu_replies.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Create the reply network from a pandas edge list.
  • Use the user's screen name as the source argument.
  • Use the screen name being replied to as the target argument.
  • Ensure that the network is a directed graph in the create_using argument.