A summary of the tweets generated at CarpentryCon 2018, Dublin

To complete the CarpentryCon report, I analysed the tweets with the “#CarpentryCon2018” hashtag or that mentioned “@CarpentryCon” using the rtweet R package by Michael W. Kearney. The source code used is available from GitHub and is based on the analyses of tweets generated during the Evolution conference in 2015 and 2017. This analysis would not also be possible without the tidytext and the tidyverse packages.

The figures seem to reflect the feeling participants expressed during the conference. The Carpentries is about the great people making up our community and this is reflected in the word cloud, and the most commonly associated words. The sentiment analysis shows very little use of words associated with negativity (and the ones used seem to be from people who could not attend the event), but instead highlight the positive experience of the participants.

If you have other ideas to analyse the tweets, leave them in the comments!

Basic summary

Total number of tweets with the #CarpentryCon2018 hashtag between 2018-05-26 18:30:25, and 2018-06-05 16:29:25: 2574
Total of original tweets (no retweets): 772.
Number of users who tweeted: 326.

Tweets timeline

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The 5 most favorited tweets

Arrived Dublin for #CarpentryCon2018! Passport control person said “CarpentryCon, I’ve heard of that!” Must be lots of folks here already. Looking forward to seeing fellow Carpenters from around the world!
— tracykteal | 2018-05-28 | 11 retweets, 51 favorites.

Second keynote at #CarpentryCon2018 was the one and only Greg Wilson (@gvwilson). He made us cry and laugh with '10 simple rules to leave', many sharp thoughts, and a great quote from his brother Jeff Wilson: "Remember, you still got a lot of good times in front of you". https://t.co/eybMgFkP71
— NPalopoli | 2018-05-31 | 20 retweets, 45 favorites.

Finished the first #genomics @datacarpentry workshop @ucddublin , here are a few great feedback notes: #CarpentryCon2018 https://t.co/cuCf0r2vWV
— JasonWilliamsNY | 2018-05-29 | 9 retweets, 44 favorites.

Now that is a hand-waving explanation of multiple sequence alignment at #CarpentryCon2018 . Either that or some heavy metal hand moves. https://t.co/YeVHNKknkB
— HigginsDes | 2018-05-31 | 12 retweets, 43 favorites.

After strenuous deliberation, I have decided to award myself with this (unofficial) @thecarpentries gold pin, which I’ve commissioned in recognition of my status as a celebrated member of the community. Congratulations Jason! #CarpentryCon2018 https://t.co/ptShey5JrW
— JasonWilliamsNY | 2018-05-30 | 7 retweets, 40 favorites.

The 5 most retweeted tweets

.@thecarpentries is teaching more than 7000 learners annually with more than 300 workshops (nearly 1 every day). Workshops on every continent; global impact in improving research practices in data management and computation #CarpentryCon2018 #sciencetwitter #DataScience https://t.co/fZspe9Uhzk
— JasonWilliamsNY | 2018-05-30 | 29 retweets, 32 favorites.

Second keynote at #CarpentryCon2018 was the one and only Greg Wilson (@gvwilson). He made us cry and laugh with '10 simple rules to leave', many sharp thoughts, and a great quote from his brother Jeff Wilson: "Remember, you still got a lot of good times in front of you". https://t.co/eybMgFkP71
— NPalopoli | 2018-05-31 | 20 retweets, 45 favorites.

I didn't expect #CarpentryCon2018 to start with a keynote on inclusion and diversity and targets and ally skills, but it sets the scene beautifully: not just "We have a CoC" and move on, but an hour on how we can understand, improve, and action the CoC as a community.
— j_w_baker | 2018-05-30 | 18 retweets, 34 favorites.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Focus on Allies talk at #CarpentryCon2018 ! Here are the slides: https://t.co/BanvQMNXTW
— frameshiftllc | 2018-05-30 | 17 retweets, 25 favorites.

Event/conference community organisers take note of how inclusive & diverse folks are at #CarpentryCon2018. I wish other communities experience what I experienced the past 2 days. It was awesome & got to learn a lot. Go to next @CarpentryCon if you can, highly recommend it. https://t.co/K2jxxeNY9m
— whykay | 2018-05-31 | 17 retweets, 22 favorites.