This chapter makes use of the data of follower data from the Twitter social network. The data is provided as a part of the Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection. You can download the Twitter data from https://snap.stanford.edu/data/egonets-Twitter.html.
We'll be making use of both the twitter.tar.gz file and the twitter_combined.txt.gz files. Both of these files should be downloaded and decompressed inside the sample code's data directory.
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The sample code for this chapter is available at https://github.com/clojuredatascience/ch8-network-analysis.
As usual, a script has been provided that will do this for you. You can run it by executing the following command line from within the project directory:
script/download-data.sh
If you'd like to run this chapter's examples, make sure you download the data before continuing.