A summary of the tweets generated at ESA 2017 (#ESA2017)
E.J. Rollinson
## Warning: Installed Rcpp (0.12.12) different from Rcpp used to build dplyr (0.12.11).
## Please reinstall dplyr to avoid random crashes or undefined behavior.About this document
This document was produced by Emily J. Rollinson (ejrollinson on Twitter).
The code generating this document was originally developed by Francois Michonneau (fmic_ on Twitter) for the 2015 Evolution meeting and can be found here.
It has since been adapted for ICCB-ECCB 2015 by Joona Lehtomaki (jlehtoma on Twitter).
Thanks also to Emily Sessa (ebsessa on Twitter) for reproducing this code for the 2015 Botany meeting, bringing it to my attention.
I originally adapted this code for the 2015 Ecological Society of America meeting (#ESA100) in Baltimore, MD, and have since reproduced it for subsequent ESA and Botany meetings.
Tweets using the hashtag #ESA2017 were aggregated from Twitter using the R package twitteR and the Twitter API. The aggregated tweets are available on Figshare.
This document was generated using RMarkdown, and the source is available on GitHub.
This document (and associated code) is released under a CC0 licence.
Basic summary
Of the 16995 tweets tagged #ESA2017 as of 2:30 PM EST 8/12/2017:
| Description | n |
|---|---|
| Total of original tweets (no retweets): | 8738 |
| Number of users who tweeted: | 3444 |
The 5 most favorited tweets
The Best Poster Ever Award goes to @Julian_Resasco. Wow! #ESA2017 https://t.co/UL6ML1HoSn
— JacquelynGill | 2017-08-10 | 185 retweets, 534 favorites.
My daughter is having an amazing time at the poster session. If you explained your science to my 7 yr old daughter, thank you! #ESA2017
— skmorgane | 2017-08-09 | 23 retweets, 379 favorites.
All these @500womensci at #ESA2017 throwing our some great ideas to make ESA more diverse, inclusive and equitable. https://t.co/cIzbc0U7qS
— anjalikumar6 | 2017-08-09 | 76 retweets, 272 favorites.
Black ecologists representing #ESA2017 https://t.co/usEbuSgRtZ
— SenayYitbarek | 2017-08-08 | 32 retweets, 255 favorites.
Working on the plane to #ESA2017 and a tiny child says ‘that’s R stuff’ as they walk by. They start younger and younger these days :)
— cmtucker_eco | 2017-08-06 | 20 retweets, 253 favorites.
The 5 most retweeted tweets
The Best Poster Ever Award goes to @Julian_Resasco. Wow! #ESA2017 https://t.co/UL6ML1HoSn
— JacquelynGill | 2017-08-10 | 185 retweets, 534 favorites.
I’m recruiting a postdoc on a new NSF project on freshwater ecology, sensors, mgmt, & #DataScience: Let’s talk at #ESA2017 if interested!
— CareyLab | 2017-08-06 | 110 retweets, 64 favorites.
If you couldn’t make advanced #vegan #rstats workshop @ #ESA2017 all the materials are freely avail: https://t.co/cf07XWD1rk #openscience
— ucfagls | 2017-08-07 | 90 retweets, 148 favorites.
I am recruiting for a funded PhD position in evolutionary ecology. If you’re interested, come talk to me at #ESA2017 https://t.co/XWNrH08m9f
— willpearse | 2017-08-07 | 89 retweets, 26 favorites.
Recruiting new postdoc at #ESA2017. If you love ecosystems and data science consider joining StreamPULSE project. https://t.co/uboTwc7oxp
— DrBioGC | 2017-08-07 | 87 retweets, 59 favorites.
Top tweeters
All generated tweets (including retweets)
Only for original tweets (retweets excluded)
Most favorited/retweeted users
The figures below only include users who tweeted 5+ times, and don’t include retweets.
Number of favorites received by users
Number of retweets received by users
Mean numbers of favorites received
Mean numbers of retweets received
Word cloud
The top 100 words among the original tweets (excludes RTs, hashtags, mentions, URLs, and “the’,”&“, etc.).
To the extent possible under law, Emily J. Rollinson has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Summary of tweets at ESA 2017. This work is published from: United States.