Folder for Computational Analysis of Social Processes
In this repository I have three mini projects tracing the evolution of far-right conspiracy theories online
Thiyaghessan_MACS30124_mini_project_1.ipynb: In this mini project I build a web scraper that calls the Wayback Machine API to scrape the Infowars.com website
mini_project_2.ipynb: After I have scraped Infowars.com and saved my scraped data to a .json file, I perform a text analysis on the scraped articles.
Interactive_Game_Conspiracy_Theories.ipynb: An interactive game that models the spread of conspiracy theories on social media networks
Conspiracy.py: File with helper functions for the interactive game above