The
Web Ecology Project is a research
collective based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our agenda is applying quantitative social
science to social media.
We released our first report June 02009, The Iranian Election on Twitter:
The First Eighteen Days. In this report we analysed over two million tweets
collected in a 19 day window during the events of the Iran election and subsiquent
protests. This report, and all subsiquent reports have been released under a Creative
Commons license.
As a part of Web Ecology, I write software to collect and analyse data from various
social networks. As the systems administrator, I manage a cluster of GNU/Linux
servers running postgres and mysql databases numbering in the hundreds of millions.
I have also prepared qualitative analysis for published reports, produced research
proposals and attended conferences representing Web Ecology.
Further research has been released exploring influence in social networks and competition
among group consensus in online platforms to
media acclaim. The Web Ecology
Project is
available for consultation and
sponsored research.